™TRADITIONAL MOUNTAINEERING
™
www.TraditionalMountaineering.org
™ and also
www.AlpineMountaineering.org
™
™
FREE BASIC TO ADVANCED
ALPINE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING INSTRUCTION™
Home
| Information
| Photos
| Calendar
| News
| Seminars
| Experiences
| Questions
| Updates
| Books
| Conditions
| Links
| Search
Hi Clay-
Thanks for those fine words!
"All I wanted to say is Thank You for creating this website, and for taking
the time to highlight and explain traditional mountaineering. I am a middle-aged
dude who is gradually working his way from hiking to backpacking to winter
camping and exploring to preparations to get into traditional mountaineering. It
seems like every thing I see in response to my own queries about mountaineering
usually start off with a photo of some adrenalin-junkie 19-year-old hanging by a
tether and a single ice tool point from a 1000\'+ inverted ice wall in Patagonia
or France or Nepal, with a competition number on their back and several thousand
dollars worth of the latest clothing and technical equipment. I cannot relate to
these people, and even if I were strong enough to climb an inverted wall of ice
all day long, I couldn't afford the equipment necessary anyway. What I am
interested in and capable of doing is discovering the beauty and exhilaration of
climbing challenging, but do-able summits in my real world below 17000 feet here
in the CONUS, mostly on my own two feet with the occasional help of an ice axe,
crampons, some rope, and a few protection anchors now and then. This is a
beautiful sport and again I thank you for creating this very helpful and
informative web site."
Isn't it a fine, complex and exciting sport? I am glad you are following in the
path of so many of us who ventured forth from hiking and backpacking, to
scrambling and a little snow and rock climbing at the top. I got interested
because some of my friends made me understand that there was more to this stuff
than meets the eye - and it is within reach and can be learned while providing
for a nice family too. Wow!
I have started getting a lot of letters like yours, so I guess that is the fun
of it for me. Also, I get to poke fun at some of the pundits that want to sell
us avalanche beacons and heavy, over designed stuff of all kinds. I plan to keep
plugging away, keeping on target as best I can and not getting off on political
crusades, etc.
You are the third guy (actually, one was a girl) in as many weeks that did not
notice the Contact Us link at the bottom of the HomePage??
"Your links are fine, but I think you should have a "Contact Us" page on your
site somewhere. I couldn't find it, other than this "suggest a link" thingy."
I guess one problem is I did not think to include it in the LinksBar at the top
of every page. And now it is to late, as I would have to change every page in
the web. Ooops. I goofed as there are ways to change that links line, all pages
at one time. Oh well.
Let me know of any other subjects I could write about for you and others. And
Climb On!
--Bob Speik
Read more . . .
Fall from the summit of Mount Hood
Slip on snow on Brokentop
How to prevent, recognize and treat Hypothermia
Carboration and hydration in aerobic mountaineering pdf file
How do you lean to self arrest?
Understanding avalanche risk
What is a dulphersitz rappel?
How do you self belay a rappel?
What is the best harness?
What gear do you rack on your harness?
About Alpine Mountaineering:
The Sport of Alpine Mountaineering
Climbing Together
Following the Leader
The Mountaineers' Rope
Basic Responsibilities
The Ten Essentials
Our Mission
South Sister, Middle Sister, North Sister (the sinister
sister) and Broken Top
in the Three Sisters Wilderness near Bend, Oregon USA
Photo Copyright© 2004-2012 by Robert Speik. All rights reserved.
