What has been happening lately!

Well since our last post a lot has happened around here.  Winslow is still in Nepal.  She finished her Everest base camp trek and Island peak climb, and is now doing a Yoga training at an asharum in Phokara, Nepal.  She is doing well and enjoying the experience,  but I will let her tell about both her trek/climb and her Yoga.

Meanwhile  I have been between Salt Lake City, Seattle and Red Rocks.  Since last year I have been training and preparing for my AMGA rock exam by rock climbing since Winslow left in early Oct.  Then at the end of Oct.  I participated in and passed my rock exam.  This was very exciting for me, as I have now passed two of the three exams necessary for international certification. (check out my blog if you want to know more about AMGA and IFMGA certification process)  Since the beginning of Nov. I have been back here in SLC doing house projects, climbing at the gym and here in the Wasatch mountains. 

Washington Pass and Squamish!!! August 7-9th, 2008

After the Enchantments we headed to Washington pass with Sara and Chris. We hung out their for 3 days climbing and staying at our friend Mark's cabin in mazama. We climbed on the North Early Winter's Spire, the Minuteman, and a day on Goat Wall.

Next we headed up to Squamish for another fun week. Unfortunately I fractured my heel. Bummer! Nonetheless we enjoyed the climbing.

Now I am heading home to relax and recover before going to Nepal in October. Todd is stay on in the Cascades to work until mid September.

Todd and I just had three weeks off to play in the Northwest. We started down in the Enchantments near Leavenworth. Here is Todd hiking toward Prussik Peak. We climbed the South face of Prussik, and then the Backbone and Fin Direct on Dragontail. Super fun! Check out more photos in the Adventures in the Enchantments folder by clicking here.

Best of Vinson

The Illyshian Jet just landed at Patriot Hills!
Martin, Serge, Micheal, Simon and Winslow in fromt on the twin otter before flying to Base Camp!

Summit ridge of Vinson! Sam, Uchida, and Tadaki making there way across!


Torres del Paine

Torres del Paine National Park here with glorious waterfalls. We were lucky to be able to go on a 3 day excursion to the park due to weather delays in flying onto the ice. Here is the Cascadia waterfall.

Los Cuernos (The Horns) Mountains below, near the southern tip of Chili.

The one hour plane ride from Patroit Hills to Vinson Base Camp in a twin otter was spectacular!





Another delay in Patriot Hills camp gave us a chance to climb this peak known as the Patriot Hills before flying into base camp.





Mt. Vinson a 16,160 foot peak that is the tallest on the continent. The weather was great and we had sucessful trips. Winslow guided two groups, and Todd lead three. We really enjoyed our groups.








To get to Antarctica, we went to the southern tip of Chili, Punta Areanas. THis is where the strait of Magellan is located. From here we took a Russian Illushian Jet, a 5 hour trip, to an area on the ice called Patriot Hills where there is a blue ice runway that is kept clear by large snow machine.

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