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They tell me the mountain will always be there…
Posted by Emilie Cortes on Monday, May 2, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Filed under Featured, Trip Reports · Tagged acl, alta peak, bamru, budget shutdown, climbing, injury, lodgepole, mountain rescue, Mountaineering, pear lake, sequoia
Can a couple of out-of-shape climbers make it up the Matterhorn by a classic technical route? What is up with “Sierra fourth class”? Can your underwear really make its way into your intestinal tract? Emilie and Patrick find out…
Posted by Emilie Cortes on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 11:14 am
Filed under Featured, Trip Reports · Tagged Alpine rock climbing, backcountry, climbing, High Altitude, Hiking, Horse Creek Tower, Matterhorn, Mountaineering, Rock climbing, Sawtooth
I’m pretty stoked to check this out. It’s coming right up! You going?
What: Tahoe Adventure Film Festival
When: Dec 11, 2010, doors open at 6:30 pm. Films start at 7:30 pm.
Where: Montbleu
What will I see? Films
How much: $27.75 – purch
Is solo backpacking stupid? Is it about the journey or the destination? Can hiking in flip-flops grant you “myth” status? Emilie finally reaches the destination, the summit of Mt Whitney, and has her answers…
Posted by Emilie Cortes on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Filed under Featured, Trip Reports · Tagged backpacking, climbing, highest mountain, Hiking, inyo, kings, langley, Mountaineering, sequoia, solo, whitney
2010 marks the second year of the now annual Wanderlust Festival in Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe. Wanderlust offers a combination of some of the world’s best yoga practitioners and a variety of musical performers, all set in nature and the beautif
Posted by Emilie Cortes on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 8:55 am
Filed under Featured, News, Trip Reports · Tagged chris sharma, climbing, diane hudock, donner pass, ebbetts pass century, elena brower, lama christie mcnally, mountain biking, music, Music Festival, shiva rea, squaw, Squaw Valley, Tahoe, Truckee, vinyasa flow, wanderlust, yoga
NORTH FACE the movie – four out of five pitons. The best climbing movie since Touching the Void…
Posted by Emilie Cortes on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Video · Tagged climbing, eiger, hintersoisser, kurz, landmark theaters, Mountaineering, movie review, music box films, nordwand, north face, Philipp Stölzl, touching the void
In November 2007, a man died after climbing Cathedral Peak in Yosemite with his partner. They expected to return the same day but were trapped on the descent when it began to snow, and one climber succumbed to hypothermia. In June 2008, a man died
Posted by Emilie Cortes on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Filed under Featured, Trip Reports · Tagged camping, climbing, Mountaineering, sierra, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, snowcamping
