Petit Grepon
Rocky Mountain National Park Petit Grepon South Face Stan and I had met through a sign on the "partners wanted" board at the Boulder Mountaineer. I was…
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Notch Couloir
Rocky Mountain National Park Long's Peak Notch Couloir It took three tries before we were able to even get up to the Notch Couloir on Long's Peak.…
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Mount Washington
New Hampshire Mount Washington: Odell's Gully Pinnacle Gully By late December of 1991, I had been in law school at Columbia for two and one half years.…
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The Middle Teton Glacier Route
Grand Teton National Park Wyoming The Middle Teton Glacier Route September, 8, 1988 Middle Teton in Summer (taken from the Exum Ridge on the Grand.) (Click on…
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Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1989
Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1989 Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1989 BACK TO THE CLIMBING/BACKPACKING MAIN PAGE BACK TO THE Vintage Gear Main Page
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Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1972
Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1972 Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1972 BACK TO THE CLIMBING/BACKPACKING MAIN PAGE BACK TO THE Vintage Gear Main Page
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Canadian Rockies Alpine Climbing
Mount Assiniboine, Northeast RidgeMount Andromeda, Middle Earth Gully (Middle Practice Gully)Canadian RockiesOctober, 2010 Mount Assiniboine from the Hut On the Northeast Ridge, First Attempt I went to…
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Boots
My Boot Family Photo This page addresses boots. Years ago, I read an article in Outside magazine about Yvonne Chouinard. There was a picture of him, surrounded…
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Approach Shoes
Approach ShoesThe term, "Approach shoe" encompasses a pretty broad range of shoes. To me, an approach shoe is a shoe that is lighter than a boot, and…
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Black Lake, West Gully, RMNP
Black Lake West Gully Rocky Mountian National Park December 2, 2008 Conditions were great for this climb of the classic West Gully, which sits below McHenry's…
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Cloudwalker by Jeff Lowe 2001
Cloudwalker by Jeff Lowe Catalog 2001 Cloudwalker by Jeff Lowe 2001 BACK TO THE CLIMBING/BACKPACKING MAIN PAGE BACK TO THE Vintage Gear Main Page
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Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1983
Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1983 Chouinard Equipment Catalog 1989 BACK TO THE CLIMBING/BACKPACKING MAIN PAGE BACK TO THE Vintage Gear Main Page
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