The "Front Yard Tyrolean Traverse"

Using a spare 13mm rope and some old climbing gear I put up this fun little prusik route[ prusik knot,used to ascend a rope] over the front yard. Some of the trees that I am using I planted a long time ago,so that is pretty cool. to do the whole route takes about an hour and a half. There are four "pitches"; a vertical prusik,one traverse prusik,another traverse,and a repel. Great fun!!!

Bare foot running.

So I started running bare foot and it's great! It's sort of like swimming in a way,your aware that you are bare foot all the time just like you are aware your in the water when your swimming. Or something like that! And people  notice you! You just know that you are the only one out there running bare foot . I never knew that running could be so much more then just exercise. I've been a jogger for twenty five years and this is just the cats meow!

Mountaineering in the pacific northwest with Ptarmigan Expeditions.

Climbing in the north cascades in small competent groups with a no frills affordable approach.

Weather ever changing.

The weather,I don't know maybe I lost it for a second there but I thought it would never end and that it was going to be like this forever. But its here so a climb of the mighty Mount Erie via one of the ridge and gully sections solo. Get used to scrambling with my mountain boots. Fun stuff.

Mountaineering in the North Cascades.

Another Spring in which to get ready to go climbing. Glad to have been running all winter and such. A few hours on some locale rock and a snow climb or two and we should be ready to go. It will be back to my favorite place,the peaks right around Mt. Baker.

Early morning view from camp.