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Alaska Alpine Climbing

Ben’s Trip Reports

June 27, 2011 – 17:03

I’ve been slow to write up anything about Alaska. Ben put two trip reports up on his local climbing site, Pull Harder.org, his two posts:

Also, slowly, my photos from the trip are going up on my Flickr stream.

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Alaska Alpine Climbing Travel

All safe

June 22, 2011 – 12:35

Heard from L that B&K are safe save some cold toes. Will post some of my photos of Alaska to Flickr probably today.

Went running with M yesterday on the river and up the hill on my 1200m repeat loop. It’ll be nice to become a runner again. I suppose that’s the constant in this life, being reborn by trials of fire, or in my case pedestrianism.

My best to Evan on his XC two wheeled journey, I hope the weather stays clear and that it’s all downhill from Wyoming.

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Alaska Alpine Climbing

Alive in Alaska

June 16, 2011 – 23:11

So the good news is that I’m alive in Alaska in Talkeetna. I arrived via single prop Beaver bush plane this afternoon after a long night slogging across a thankfully frozen glacier with some Tennessean compatriots I met at camp 11k as I was hiking down.

Sadly, I have some sort of Bronchitis, which is what brought me back down here to near sea level. Ben and Koysta still hope to finish at least the Upper West Rib, hopefully sooner than later, though Ben has already soloed the West Buttress.

It is warm and green here which is a nice change of pace compared to burning glacier sun, hot/cold & snowing, & sometimes incredibly cold. Hopefully I’ll spend a couple of days here to recover from the grippe and be on my way back East, as I do miss my family and friends.

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Alaska Alpine Climbing

The High One, His Wife & Their Child

March 31, 2011 – 13:13
Denali Topo

Denali, Sultana and Begguya

Denali National Park & Preserve

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Alpine Climbing

Full on Slovak Direct, Denali – from June 2010 (Huey & Westman)

December 9, 2010 – 16:32

BD grassroots athlete Jesse Huey reports on his ascent of Denali’s Slovak Direct route from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo.

Pretty insane. It makes the W. Rib (& even the Cassin) look tame. Frost nip, beware indeed, kick those feet. Very impressive and I think committed is definitely the name of the game here (figuratively and literally). Triple rainbow all the way.

The full text of the original post on Black Diamond’s grassroots athlete journal page is here.

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