Over the last four years, I seem to find myself in the North Cascades teaching guiding training programs for the AMGA. This year I was co-teaching with Jeff Ward and despite some of the worst weather I’ve seen in the North Wet, we still managed to get a lot in over the ten days. On this particular day we climbed Mount Shuksan; one team climbed the North Ridge and down the South, while the other team climbed the Southwest Ridge and circumnavigated the peak. Both teams then met on the upper Curtis Glacier and practiced crevasse rescue. Below are some images of it and a movie of the North Ridge shot a few years ago.
Stephen Chiang and I climbed for a week in the chamonix valley. Though we experienced some bad weather we still managed to climb 8 peaks in 8 days (Oh the beauty of lift served climbing!). Since it snowed almost a meter of new snow in the high peaks we started in the Aiguilles Rouge and climbed the Traverse des Crochues. This route traverse west to east across the Aiguilles Crochues (2840m).
