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Peregrinator said:
Add some silt a few miles downstream and it's Lady P's favorite color. She loves that turquoise-y aquamarine color you see in glacially-fed streams and rivers.

This last bunch is a great group of pics.
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I love the color of the Kenai River in the spring.
 
Wild Russia - the Caucasus

Is on the tube right now. Great mountain footage.
 
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thør said:
the Legendary Haute Route

Matterhorn looms in the distance

view from Charmonix
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Ahhh, yes. On most of those days I found myself wondering, "Why am I doing this?" Ever since, I say to myself, "I'm glad I did that."

 
From the local paper, adn.com:

"A West High science teacher died in an avalanche that was triggered as he sledded down a gully at Bird Ridge Monday afternoon, and his body was recovered today, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Dale Brabec had taught at the school since 2001, said Heidi Embley, a spokeswoman for the Anchorage School District. He taught physics and astronomy, according to the West High website.

West High principal Rick Stone alerted school staffers this afternoon. Many had kept up with the developments throughout the day, Embley said.

Brabec planned to go hiking and sledding after work Monday. When he didn't show up at school this morning, the friends became concerned and went to look for him. They found his car in the small pullout at Mile 102 of the Seward Highway at the Bird Ridge trail head, troopers said.

Troopers got a call to look for him about 10:30 a.m. today and launched Helo 1 soon after. A trooper from Girdwood and a volunteer with Alaska Mountain Rescue Group were on board.

They spotted an avalanche chute near the Bird Ridge trail. As the helicopter drew closer, they could make out clothing and what turned out to be a shiny saucer sled sticking out from the debris, said Trooper Jeff Simpson, who was on board.

"He was going to sled down it and the avalanche triggered," Simpson said.

The chopper landed and those on board determined the man was dead. His body was recovered about 1:40 p.m., troopers said.

Brabec's body was found about halfway from the top of the ridge, on the Indian side, around the 1,000-foot level, Simpson said. The sled looked homemade. The avalanche started maybe 100 feet from the top of the ridge.

Brabec's friends hiked up and helped the rescue group volunteers dig out the body, the trooper said. He was buried about 5 or 6 feet deep.

The Bird Ridge trail draws hikers in early spring because it is often one of the first spots to be clear of snow. But that hasn't happened yet, said Bill Romberg, a member of the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group who was getting updates about the mission through the day. The next couple of weeks are likely to be a period of high avalanche activity, he said.

"Everyone wants to get out and hike. Down low, it's all baked off. But there's snow up high. The snow pack still thinks its winter. But it's changing fast, with the sunshine.""
 
Glacier travel.....

From the local adn.com:

"On Saturday afternoon, a snowmachine rider from Eagle River stepped off his machine to take pictures on Nelchina Glacier. He walked a short way on what he thought was an ice bridge. Then he plunged 60 feet down into a crevasse.

David Joerg, 54, was trapped in a tight ice cocoon six stories below the surface of the glacier.

"It happens pretty fast. Your knees are hitting things, your arms, your shoulders, your elbows. You are just being thrust down into a wedge of ice," said Joerg, who was out riding that day with his friend and riding partner, Rod Hansen, also 54 and from Eagle River.

He survived there for more than seven hours.

Troopers and volunteer rescuers got him out."


I've known Rod since he came to Alaska.
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3 out of 14 Finish Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic

From the adn.com:

"It's not every day that competitors in the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic go too fast, which is why Luc Mehl, Brad Marden and Eben Sargent wanted to take advantage of the situation for as long as they could, even if it meant bodily harm.

Sliding down the frozen reaches of upper Ernie Creek, which pours out of an area known as the Valley of the Precipices in the heart of the Brooks Range, the trio of Anchorage skiers found themselves wrestling with a very un-Classic-like dilemma -- they were going too fast.

With a 25 mph tailwind pushing them down what was essentially a luge run, they had a hard time maintaining control, even with sharp metal edges on their skis.

"We'd aim for bushes or little patches of snow that we could check our speed on," Mehl said. "With that tailwind it felt like if you felt the wind would push you until you hit a rock or a hole.

"I counted a couple of times and with one double-pole stroke you could go 100 to 200 feet. The wind was blowing that hard and the ice was that smooth."

Mehl and Marden estimated they hit speeds of 20 mph on some of the steepest, smoothest stretches.

Considering racers are usually lucky to average 2 mph on a good day in the Classic -- a 150- to 200-mile backcountry ski race with no checkpoints, no trail and no resupply points -- speed is not necessarily a bad thing.

Until it gets too dark to see what's in front of you.

When that happened, the three skiers did the only thing they could. With no tent -- they opted not to bring one so they could travel light -- they found refuge behind three big boulders below a cliff and burrowed in for a few fitful hours of sleep.

While the boulders helped block the wind, they didn't prevent spindrift -- swirling snow as a result of the wind -- from finding its way into the openings of their sleeping bags.

Such is life in the Wilderness Classic, Alaska's longest -- and only -- unsupported, human- powered winter race. Marden called it a camping trip without the amenities "

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There was a time when simply climbing the Nordwand at all was an impressive feat, the achievement of a lifetime.


Twenty-seven-year-old Dani Arnold climbed the north face of the Eiger in 2 hours and 28 minutes yesterday. This beats the previous speed record on the face set by Ueli Steck in 2008 by 20 minutes. Arnold, a Swiss national, set the new record via the Heckmair route. Alpinist.com readers will be familiar with Arnold from the first winter ascent of Torre Egger, which he did with Stefan Siegrist and Thomas Senf.

http://www.alpinist.com/media/web11s/arnold_speed.jpg

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web11s/newswire-flash-eiger-speed

The route:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Heckmair-Route.jpg/800px-Heckmair-Route.jpg

The north face was first climbed on July 24, 1938 by Anderl Heckmair, Ludwig Vörg, Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek in a German–Austrian party. The party had originally consisted of two independent teams: Harrer (who didn't have a pair of crampons on the climb) and Kasparek were joined on the face by Heckmair and Vörg, who had started their ascent a day later and had been helped by the fixed rope that the lead team had left across the Hinterstoisser Traverse. The two groups, led by the experienced Heckmair, decided to join their forces and roped together as a single group of four. Heckmair later wrote: "We, the sons of the older Reich, united with our companions from the Eastern Border to march together to victory."[5]
The expedition was constantly threatened by snow avalanches and climbed as quickly as possible between the falls. On the third day a storm broke and the cold was intense. The four men were caught in an avalanche as they climbed "the Spider," the snow-filled cracks radiating from an ice-field on the upper face, but all possessed sufficient strength to resist being swept off the face. The members successfully reached the summit at four o'clock in the afternoon. They were so exhausted that they only just had the strength to descend by the normal route through a raging blizzard.[5] (~Wiki)

This is Steck, the record that was just broken by Arnold:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-dPjDYVKUY

Screengrab. That has got to be one motherfucking lonely feeling:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/Peregrinator/SteckEiger.jpg
 
SkAoUt said:
Check out "North Face". Its a movie about that expedition. Filmed on the mountain. I'll say that it raised the hair on the back of my neck it was so chilling and horrifying.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844457/
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North Face makes the trendiest alpine gear around. They are really tops, no pun, when you're huddled in a snow-dug cave awaiting a storm to pass.

All the sherpas wear their stuff.
 
stickwork said:
North Face makes the trendiest alpine gear around. They are really tops, no pun, when you're huddled in a snow-dug cave awaiting a storm to pass.

All the sherpas wear their stuff.
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Need a Denali Jacket?

LOL
 
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