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Introduction to Index: Great Northern Slab

A humbling first day on Index granite. The 5.2 shut me down, then I gutted out my first Index lead on a sandbagged 5.8.

Engineer by day, ultrarunner & mountaineer

Field notes from the trail, the rock, and the road.

Trip reports with the conditions and decisions that don't fit in a caption, plus the photography from along the way.

The Summit Log

My fourth crack at Rainier's Disappointment Cleaver: a two-day team climb in brutal wind, with Stella laid to rest on the summit.

Multipitch ridge climbing on Lundin Peak, plus Snoqualmie Mountain and Snow Dome. A three-summit Friday just outside Seattle.

A dark-start scramble to a quiet Wild Sky summit, a sunrise cloud inversion over Baring, and a peak I bagged by accident.