Long story short, (aren’t all of these posts just the short version? I’m so lazy…) Dean and Mark and a couple of Mark’s friends from work, Tom and Kyle, headed up towards Mount Adams on the last weekend of May. Weather was mostly cooperative, and we were nearly successful, except for a slight case of electricity that greeted us about 200 feet shy of the summit. We made it safely down to our high camp at 8500′ though, and after a long walk out enjoyed some amazing food in Hood River. Since this is officially an Alt.Slick. Terrible Trip Report™, I’ll just keep it short and promise to update it at a later time and throw down some photos instead.
It was inevitable - the day when I actually realized and accepted the fact that I don’t really climb so much any more, as much as I simply read and think about climbing. The domain was available, so I snagged it - TheArmchairMountaineer.com. Setting this up will allow me to keep Altitude Slickness as more of my personal photography and trip report depot, and use TAM as more of a general outdoor and design blog of sorts. The design is just a template at this point, but should be thickening up over the next month or so, but so far so good. Lots of content and stuff to talk about, which is kind of bumming me out, when I think about how I’d rather be outside, but all in all it’s just good to be busy. I do have a winter trip planned next week which should be nothing less than entertaining (taking the Scouts snow caving), but doing all this writing and thinking about climbing has me really aching for a decent epic…
Mt. Daniel in March is sounding better and better, Mark…
With the dearth of trips these last few months, this site has been pretty much neglected (other than some basic template-tweaking and general mid-winter tidying). I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’d like to do with this place, and a few ideas have started to congeal, but it’s still going to be a while before I have the time to do what I’d really like. In the meantime, I’ll be posting more bits and pieces of outdoor-related design, gear, trip reports, and photography.
Photographer Scott Starr has quite the YouTube channel going. Full of vintage skate, surf, bike, and snowboard clips, it’s by far the easiest way to kill a lunch hour I’ve found this week. It’s the vintage part that makes it fun - most of these bits would never be seen by my kids unless somebody hung on to them and took the time to share. Good stuff, even if there’s not a climbing vid in the bunch.
It’s not even actually winter yet and I’m going nuts for all the wrong reasons. It’s just been too long since I’ve been able to get outside and put some miles or altitude to bed, so I’m just getting antsy. It was kinda nice to find this old magazine at a local used book store though - nicely designed with lots of cool old ads and photographs.
