Mountaineering Organizations
Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK)
http://www.adk.org/home-flash.aspx
ADK's resource links
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/links.php
American Alpine Club
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/links.php
Mountain Culture at the Banff Center
http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/
Summitclimb.com
http://www.summitclimb.com/new/default.asp
Mountaineering Courses
ADK Winter Mountaineering School
http://www.winterschool.org/dacks.html
Yamnuska Mountain Adventures
http://www.yamnuska.com/index.html
Rainier Mountaineering, Inc
http://www.rmiguides.com/
Mountain Madness
http://www.mountainmadness.com/
NOLS - National Outdoor Leadership School
http://www.nols.edu/
Alpine Ascents
http://www.alpineascents.com/
Monday, January 7, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
January update
Hello everyone and Happy New Year!
We’ve been plugging along – Brad and Veronika are planning to take mountaineering courses in the Spring while Rick and I are continuing our own training.
We've hit the stairmaster at the gym a few times and did 1500 vertical feet at Pretty Boy Reservoir this morning with 35 lb packs averaging 15 vertical ft/min. We’ve also logged in a Jan meeting (since it has been a month since our first meeting). We went over the chapter on "Snow Travel and Climbing" and decided to cover the next chapter “Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue” before the early Feb meeting.
I've already had the chance to read both chapters, make a snow cave with Nate and Veronika at Wisp (video clip below in Czech and mobile phone quality ;-), set up the C and Z pulley systems in the basement with the kids (picture below), got the Texas pusik system to work (no pictures of that available), and got some pickets and a down jacket for Christmas.
Rick will try to figure out how to post our individual training spreadsheets and will list some of the concepts that we should practice whenever there is snow. We also went over some of the terminology from the chapter and Rick will post some of the definitions of terms that we want to make sure we all know.
Let’s try to keep the posts going to see how everyone is progressing!
Jakub
We’ve been plugging along – Brad and Veronika are planning to take mountaineering courses in the Spring while Rick and I are continuing our own training.
We've hit the stairmaster at the gym a few times and did 1500 vertical feet at Pretty Boy Reservoir this morning with 35 lb packs averaging 15 vertical ft/min. We’ve also logged in a Jan meeting (since it has been a month since our first meeting). We went over the chapter on "Snow Travel and Climbing" and decided to cover the next chapter “Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue” before the early Feb meeting.
I've already had the chance to read both chapters, make a snow cave with Nate and Veronika at Wisp (video clip below in Czech and mobile phone quality ;-), set up the C and Z pulley systems in the basement with the kids (picture below), got the Texas pusik system to work (no pictures of that available), and got some pickets and a down jacket for Christmas.
Rick will try to figure out how to post our individual training spreadsheets and will list some of the concepts that we should practice whenever there is snow. We also went over some of the terminology from the chapter and Rick will post some of the definitions of terms that we want to make sure we all know.
Let’s try to keep the posts going to see how everyone is progressing!
Jakub
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
