from Climber's Blog
NORTHWEST:
-- Ski slopes are starting to look inviting but objective hazards are also present. Early season snow comes with many hazards, beware of un-plugged but hidden crevasses, cornices, avalanches and other hazards related to low snow-pack and ear...
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from Rock Climbing UK
There is a scene in the film Apocalypse Now where Kilgore exclaims, If I say this beach is safe to surf it’s safe to surf. Well the question facing me was Is this mountain safe to climb? and I wasn’t thinking about the objective hazards of crevasse and avalanche. Camped beneath the towering mass of [...] Learning to fly A tale of the battle against mountains and illness: guest post by Simon Overton is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK ...
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from Rock Climber Girl
For the second year in a row , my fourth of July was spent miles and miles from the nearest fireworks in an alpine wonderland. This year brought my first real trip to the North Cascades for climbing. The North Cascades is an alpine playground... more peaks than you can count, beautiful and wild views, and so many traditional routes it takes a series of guidebooks to plan a weekend. We got in late on Saturday, so spent the first afternoon trying to climb in a way-too-hot Mazama. After calling it a day, we
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