Category: Mountaineering
VIDEO: Rugged Mountain
I thought I was signing up for a 48 hour suffer fest. It was the end of September. Rain was in the forecast. I’ve been feeling too cold to function inside my own apartment. The ACC-VI website lists Rugged mountain as the second hardest Island Qualifer. Uff. I’m feeling highly motivated to finish all nine…
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VIDEO: Elkhorn Northwest Ridge
Bernard and I set out to try a real mountain on our own for the first time. We packed all the gear for all the possible routes. We brought perhaps too much cheese. And we gave ourselves 3 days to do it all in. We were open to what the mountains would teach us.
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VIDEO: Girls trip to Mt. Baker
Mt. Baker was the first mountain I attempted to climb back in 2013. What a difference four years makes!
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VIDEO: Wild Women Climb Warden Peak
Just got back from an epic. We made it up Warden Peak with a rad group of women from the Alpine Club of Canada. It was an 18 hour day plus a 6 hour drive home. Made it back with just enough time to get to work.
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VIDEO: Triple Peak via the North Ridge
Seven of us from the Alpine Club of Canada made our way up Triple Peak last weekend. We attempted to follow the North Ridge route, but the snow conditions made things a bit challenging.
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A hint of winter on Arrowsmith’s UnJudges route
A year ago, I went on my first trip with Alpine Club on Mt. Arrowsmith. Many great trips later, things have come full circle with another trip up UnJudges. The weather this year made the conditions a bit more exciting. Here’s a photo from late October 2015 at the same elevation as the photo at the top…
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Triple Peak
The first part was hiking up a series of waterfalls.
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Learning to mountaineer with NOLS on Mt. Baker and Mt. Shuksan
I just came back from a two-week mountaineering course in the North Cascades with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Early challenges Mountaineering has the reputation of being a rather manly activity, so I would not have been surprised if I was one of only a few women on my course. However, I was the only…
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