Trip report from a summer hike on Mount Baker’s Easton Glacier to cool off and escape wildfire smoke.
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Landscapes shift when free of snow. Features morph: become larger and smaller, more or less ominous. A ravine we call a death trap is flooded with delicate purple petals.
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Review of Mount Everest book, Third Pole, by Mark Synnott.
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Round up of mountain news stories from Denali to Everest, also including 10th Mountain Division documentary and avalanche plea deal.
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Beyond the halls of formal avalanche education, the most simple way to avoid getting ‘lanched is to pay attention to slope angles.
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Roundup of light minimal to burly multipurpose ski mountaineering ice axes including Blue Ice, Black Diamond, Grivel and Petzl and how to choose.
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