Alan Rousseau's Alaska 2021
Spring of 2021 was my longest trip to Alaska and definitely the most productive of my 13 trips into the range. The plans for it started to get hashed out in October of 2019. I’ll give you all one guess why the trips did not happen in spring of 2020. At least the silver lining was it allowed another year of structured training to prepare.
July 12, 2021
The Grand Traverse and WURL
With COVID-19 shutting down Alan's summer travel plans, he turned his objectives closer to home and set his sites on completing the Grand Traverse and WURL.
July 16, 2020
A Classic Alaskan Adventure: Early-Season Ice Chase in the Wrangells
Grivel and Beal athlete Natalie Afonina recounts her trip to the remote wilderness of Alaska to chase preseason ice. The ice climbing there is big, blue, and beautiful... if you can handle the frigid cold, wild terrain, and short daylight hours.
May 18, 2020
Finding Peace in Potrero
Cypher Climbing ambassador Fallon Rowe talks about her trip to El Potrero Chico over the winter. It featured tons of climbing on amazing single and multi-pitch routes, fun with good people, giant margaritas, hot springs, and the headgames of diving back into the sport after surgeries.
May 15, 2020
Helping Kids Experience the Mountains
A fourth grade teacher at Rose Park Elementary School decided that she wanted to give her students the experience of skiing or snowboarding. In order to make this happen she turned to Ski Utah, Liberty Mountain, and a generous community of outdoorsy folk.
February 26, 2020
To Bolt or Not to Bolt?
Edelweiss ambassador Josie McKee talks about her trip to Nepal with Savannah Cummins and Dawa Yangzum. They went to the Rolwaling Valley with the intent of bolting multiple sport climbing routes for the locals, but found that the act of adding bolts to the landscape was a perhaps a tougher mental challenge than physical.
January 3, 2020