EPIC Trip Reports - Revisited

[nyker]

Presto,

These are simply awesome reports and photos. What a trip(s).
Makes me want to start looking at flights to Alaska now.
Wow. Great job on these. These are some great photos to be reminiscing over.

[kaiman]

Here's one of my recent favorite epic TRs:

http://maxneale.blogspot.com/2014/08/ex ... assin.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Funny, self-deprecating, and brutally honest. I liked his "Life of an Adventure/Climb" diagram so much I printed it out and stuck it on my office wall!

[jchapell]

The Smiley's campaign to climb all 50 N.A. Classic Climbs has some great trip reports (and videos) to boot. The most recent attempt on Mt. Logan's Hummingbird Ridge is a great read. Pretty incredible they came back safe.
smileysproject.blogspot.com/2014/07/mt- ... ge_30.html

[Aubrey]

Presto, speaking of the North Cascades, this TR humbled me to this region:

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopi ... w=previous" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[kbmiller]

Press expedition across the Olympic Peninsula in 1889-90. http://www.amazon.com/Across-Olympic-Mo ... 0898862191

[broncotw]

Has to be one of my favorite Trip Reports (TR).... One of the few attempts at the Capital/Snowmass Traverse..... Some Epic Pictures here....


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[planet54]

See if you like this one. The first crossing of Khurdopin Pass in the Karakoram with some of the most spectacular scenery on this planet. There is a brief report on summitpost.org but not much info. Use the mute button if you have to.

[dr_j]

This one:

http://14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=13759

[illusion7il]

I still like the movie "Touching the Void"

It feels so good when he cuts the rope!

I just don't see how much more epic it can get......

[cbrobin]

http://www.summitpost.org/dharma-bums-t ... ort/239046" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hard to top Jack Kerouac.

[johnt]

W.E Bowman's The Ascent of Rum Doodle. I've read it 153 times.

[Broken Knee]

The Smiley's campaign to climb all 50 N.A. Classic Climbs has some great trip reports (and videos) to boot. The most recent attempt on Mt. Logan's Hummingbird Ridge is a great read. Pretty incredible they came back safe.

Some friends and I gave Alan Steck a 75th birthday party a few years ago. I harassed him into presenting the slide show from the FA of the Hummingbird. The team had given the show at the AAC meeting a few months after the ascent, then relationships got strained and Alan took the slides and stored them in his attic. They sat there for 36 years... So when I asked him to give the show, he said: "I don't remember where I put the slides!" and I said: "Where would the logical place be?" and he said: "The attic I guess..." And there they were. I gave them the archival cleaning process and when he showed them, people in the audience were crying and sobbing. Randy Grandstaff (RIP) came up to me crying and hugged me like a bear, thanking us all for putting it together. Now that was an epic ascent! I asked Alan - considering all of the subsequent failures on the Hummingbird - what was it that his team had that allowed them to get up the ridge when so many great climbers failed. He said his team had the foresight to bring a solid coal shovel to cut the groove.