Mountaineering
Crevasses and Angry Dogs: A bicycle-powered Mt. Baker ski descent
Story and photos by Peter Lillesve
Dogs chased me down the dark highway – fast ones, loud ones, all unleashed and unfenced. Of the many...
Parting Shot: Jason Hummel’s glacier project
To me, the unknown is uncovering for yourself what’s new and exciting. It’s both walking in the footprints of others and creating your own...
Seven days of alpine adventure through the heart of the North...
Story and photos by Jason Griffith
It’s hard to find a place in the lower 48 as wild as the tangled valleys at the head...
Mountain Technology: A guide’s take on what to use
By Jason D. Martin
Historically, in order to escape from daily life and technology, one could go to the mountains. Now, with technology all around...
Separated on the Glacier: Reflecting on a mountain mishap
A few turns off the summit, the author stopped to wait for his partner. The pair never found out what went wrong.
By Ben Whitney
A knot...
Skiing in the path of a proposed pipeline in B.C.
Reflecting on a recovering but endangered landscape while following grizzly tracks up a remote peak
By Michelle Tanz
My skis glided on the consolidated spring snowpack....
Mountain Trivia: Think you know the Cascades?
Politicians on first ascents, highest peaks, glaciology and an accidental bowel movement
By Jason D. Martin
Our last installment of mountain trivia was popular so we’re...
A midwinter ski circumnavigating of Mt. Shuksan
Story and photos by Jason Griffith
With icefalls cascading down her northern flanks and a summit pyramid towering over a plateau of ice, Mt. Shuksan’s...
Summits on the Air: Dispatches from a society of mountaintop radio...
By Nick Belcaster
The first time I spoke to Tim Nair his voice came in over my handheld radio, hailing me through the static. “Summit...
