North Cascades Window Shopping
January high pressure and snow stability opens up some options for some North Cascade denizens.
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Category: Featured
THR Gear Shed Podcast: The Lightweight Touring Boot Roundtable
Fabrikant, Aplin, and Hess discuss the merits of lightweight touring boots and where they see a best-fit application for these 1000g+ class boots. And as always—find what fits.
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We Need More: Avalanche Rescue Education isn’t Enough.
You’ve put in the time to take an avalanche rescue course, maybe two. You practice each year with your beacon, and the dutiful among you might even attend your annual Snow and Avalanche Workshop to continue to learn all that you can about how to avoid an avalanche. Then, one day, you find yourself in the terrible position of digging out your buried partner. You succeed in pulling them to the surface, but they’re not moving or breathing. Have you trained for this?
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Fear, Lack, and Truth: Reflections on “The Tower”
Truth can be an elusive prey. In The Tower, Kelly Cordes succeeds in tightening his grip on the truths and lies that make up the history of climbing on Cerro Torre. The subtitle “A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre” only hints at the depths in which he researches the topic.
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Give Monogamy a Chance
Consistent touring partners are a fickle beast. Good ones—the sort you build a “partnership” with—require the confluence of several factors. It’s like dating, but maybe even harder. It’s a very Goldilocks sort of quest.
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