Climbing I learned to rock climb at the MIT outing club in 1968. Since then I've completed two vertical marathons of technical rock climbing, 52 miles of vertical mostly leading. In 2000 I was on a small team of mountaineers who did the first ascent of a 20,000 foot high Andean peak, Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas. The hardest long rock climb I have done is El Capitan East Buttress. California Cathedral Peak, 2002 Cathedral Peak lightning storm Matthes Crest, 2002 Mount Conness,2002, west ridge Mt. Conness West Ridge , 2000 Lunch Ledge, October 2000 Via Aqua, October , 2000 West Ridge of Mt. Conness, October 2000 Sespe Gorge . 2000 Kings Canyon 2000 Half Dome Cables Without, Nov 1999 Half Dome Snake Dike Oct 1999 Fairview Dome,The Regular Route, Tuolumne CA The Murder of the Possible by Mike Bolte, Reed's Pinnacle Direct Mt Clark N to S traverse, Yosemite CA. New Zealand Mt. Aspring, February 2002 Wyoming Mount Moran, September 2001 Cirque of the Towers, September 1, 2000 Arizona Grand Canyon, June 2001 Nevada Blue Mass Sceinic Area June 2000 Windy Pt, Arizona Baboquivari , Arizona Hurt Butt Buttress, Cochise Stronghold Arizona What's My Line?, Cochise Stronghold Arizona Planet Granite, indoor gym Altitude Adaptation, High and fast in Chile. Index of climbing stories.

Paul Doherty at the top of Via Aqua Blue Mass Scenic Area Nevada / Cirque of the Towers, Wind Rivers Wyoming. Robert Ayers on Mt. Conness West Ridge

Backpacking Under full pack we travel down trailless canyons on the north rim of the grand canyon.

Camping with Paul and Ellen Scenes and stories of how we camp.

Channel Islands Ellen and I visited the Channel Islands off the coast of California in August, 2000. We took a day trip to Anacapa island and spent the night camping on Santa Cruz island.

Skiing

Sweden 2000 February-April Week 1: Tom Tits Experiment Week 2: Skiing Week 3: Cross-country skating? Week 4: Work Week 5: Norway, skiing Week 7: At the climbing Gym Week 8 : Across Europe in a week Now including Good Vibrations a brief look at my lecture at Technorama. Week 10: To Öland Week 11: To the Arctic, the Ice Hotel and Bjorkliden Week 12: Iceland extras: Science Teaching activities visit my apartment

Here I am after a 27 km ski in to Glitterheim hut in Jotenheimen National park, Norway. I am drying out next to the stove with all the wet clothing around me.

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