alpine climbing
From your first steps in crampon or rock shoes, to your first alpine summit, to the climb of your life: get into the mountains and encounter the world of rock, snow and ice. I offer guided ascents and instruction in the Cascades, the Alps, Alaska, Canada, and beyond.
This spring and summer, consider the possibilities:
- Ingalls Peak: an introduction to alpine rock
- The North Ridge of Mt. Baker
- The North Face of Mt. Shuksan
“The sun still rises in the east, and for nearly two centuries now mountaineers have been setting out to meet him each summer’s day, after consulting the stars and the cold...Grey limestone or ruddy granite, ice of the gully or the serac, blown snow or cornice, smell of rock, scent of flowers, delicate saxifrage or sub-Himalayan forest, starlight or storm, sun-scorched terrace, unreal frontiers, friendship between two beings for better or for worse — to these do we belong.”