2015 Trips

Humphreys Peak 17 December 2015 Right in the middle of a long drive across America to see my family for the holidays, I couldn’t resist bagging a peak. I initially intended only to visit the Grand Canyon during the early…

San Jacinto Peak 8 November 2015 John and I went Cactus 2 Clouds 2 JJ’s Mexican Restaurant, a highly recommended route. It was fascinating to ascend from the desert floor into the sky island. At one point on the trail…

Mt Humphreys 9 August 2015 All the usual superlatives apply to Mt Humphreys. Sinuous. Devastatingly prominent. Outstanding. Jaggged. Hardcore. Scary. A Jewel. Or as Joseph N. Leconte put it: “I have never felt so impressed, so utterly overpowered, by the…

Mt Agassiz and The Pursuit of North Palisade 31 July 2015 ‘He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his…

Mt Brewer 11 July 2015 Eric has already done such a nice job writing this one up, I’ll point you over his way: Eric’s Mt Brewer trip report I don’t have a whole lot more to say but I definitely…

Celebrating America’s Birthday: Tower Peak, The Watchtower, Panum Crater, and Dunderberg Peak 4 July 2015 I’m taking a different tack on this ‘trip report’. It would be difficult to describe how much fun we had on this one. Or mostly…

Red Slate Mountain 28 June 2015 This is a supermini, so small, trip story. Jonathan and I climbed Red Slate Mountain via the north couloir. In fact the only way to truly make this outing deserving of the Sierra Club…

Banner Peak 31 May 2015  

Mt Shasta: The Lonely Mountain 19 April 2015 A quake went down my spine as I gazed for the first time upon the bulk of Mt Shasta. This is a very large mountain. The familiar thought fired through my dizzied…

Scenes from the Mexican Border: Baboquivari Peak and Kino Peak 5 April 2015 Scene I: Baboquivari Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation. A high-mileage Hyundai Elantra. 85 miles per hour. Arizona State Trooper. Four hikers. And a dream – Baboquivari Peak. ‘You…