This is the hub for both all of our expedition journals, planning pages for future missions & expeditions, as well as general musings about mountaineering. I also use it just to centralize and post the notes I take as I learn about all this awesomeness.

Expedition Reports

Detailed reports from past expeditions on the mountains:

• Whitney Winter Solo Summit — 2024.01.18
  — my spontaneous crash course in extreme (by my measure) mountaineering. I’m still alive.
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• Whitney Redemption: Gear Retrieval Mission — 2024.01.25
  — a brief travelogue of me and my companion, Michael, going back up on the mountain to collect my base camp and bring it back down.
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• the Ebersbacher Ledges : Crux of the Climb
  the scariest moment so far of my mountaineering career

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Future Exped Planning Pages

• Mount Shasta Summit 2024
• Mount Whitney Summit (Exped III) 2024
• Sespe Hot Springs (Gear Test w/Mike) 2024-02
• Patagonia Expedition
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• My Mountaineering Summit Bucket List

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General Musings on Mountaineering

• Why do we risk our lives to climb mountains?
  — a general meditation on that question, and some possible answers. Its a riddle, for sure.
  also, I wrote part 2 to this: my own personal reasons for climbing
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• The Myth of Gear
  — thoughts on minimalism, free solo-ing, and why patient skill-building should always trump gear acquisition shopping sprees
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• Joshua Tree Climbing Lessons
  — some really basic observations from a recent scrambling trip to jTree with friends.

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Primers / Foundation Docs

• Mountaineering Team Agreement / Code of Ethics
  mountaineering is by nature a high-risk sport.
  We need to be absolutely clear on our agreements as a team.
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• What is Mountaineering?
  an introduction, and a clarification.
  Hint: It ain’t hiking.
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• Climbing & Mountaineering Movies
  …that I found to be both educational and inspiring.
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• Pure Alpine Poetry
  Mountain (2017) movie transcript
  poetry by Robert Macfarlane, as read by Willem Defoe
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• Class 1, 2, 3, climbing 5.11d… What are Ratings?
  a basic explanation of what to expect when you see a route
  and a rating of its difficulty. Not always what you think!