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Alaska Related Climbing Sites

Ade Miller's Climbing Site: Hunt around on this site for pictures of Mount Augusta and Good Neighbor Peak.

Alaska Alpine Club: The UAF alpine club.

AlaskaMountainForum.com: A forum with a little info about climbing in SC Alaska.

AlaskaIceClimbing.com: A promising site that has an excellent online guide for Southcentral Alaskan ice. There is also a forum that sees a flurry of activity in the winter months.

CascadeClimbers.com: This site is entertaining and if you can sort through the spray there is lots of information to be gleamed from many people.

Clint Helander's Blog: A good start on a blog from a promising young alpinist who loves steep alpine routes.

Crevasse Zone: Glacier velocity and surface elevation research on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska.

EastofAnchorage.net: Todd Kelsey's forum-style site. Here you might find an alternative story as to what happened on a trip that I wrote up. Don't believe him; he can't be trusted.

Epic Eric: Blog from a crazy biking, climbing seamster. Eric and I climb together now and then. Any man with an industrial sewing machine is a friend of mine.

Erin & Hig's Alaska Trekking Page: Lightweight, long-distance, off-trail hiking and packrafting in Alaska. These guys are the real deal; ultra distance with no ground support and subsisting only on berries and nutella.

Himalayasdream.com: Yury Pritzker's site with images of a 2006 ascent of Mt. Hunter.

Jed's Climbing Page: Awe-inspiring photos and trip reports from a Fairbanks hard man.

Joe Stock: Joe Stock regularly embarks on epic traverses across Alaska's largest ice fields. He can ski in 18 hours what would take a normal person 5 days. Check out his blog!

JTLindholm.com: Mr. Lindholm's site of photos and trips from around the country. JT likes pack rafting adventures; meaning he hikes for 100+ miles to reach a raging river which he then floats down in a tiny bathtub sized raft. This makes for great photos and stories - but you wouldn't catch me in such a dangerous predicament.

Life According to Kellie: Simply put, Kellie Okonek rocks. From epic ski descents of Reinhold's Messner couloir to sick face in Turnagain Pass this woman's blog will make you wish you could ski half as good as she does on her off days.

Mountaineering Club of Alaska: The official MCA site. If you are a member and have all day to wait for the slow connection you can download an old scree issue.

Paul Turecki's Blog: Chances are if you climb, then you've climbed a Turecki route. Turecki has put up routes from Chickaloon, Alaska to Tonsai Beach, Thailand. He guides all around the world and routinely updates his blog with photos of wild ascents and descents from exotic areas.

Phillip Lee's Site: A personal web page from a Fairbanks climber. This site has good photos of Foraker.

Ralph Tingey's Blog: Ralph has been a fixture of the National Park Service and the climbing world for decades. He has retired from the NPS but still climbs hard and loves to write about climbing and life in Alaska.

Ryan Hokanson's Blog: Blog-style site featuring some impressive routes and descents in Alaska and beyond.

Sam Johnson's Blog: Sam is a prolific climber who has forged FA's all over the world. His blog only touches on the places he's been; hopefully he'll keep updating it.

Sherrie Soltis' Blog: A blog and photo essay of ice routes in Southcentral Alaska from a local hard-woman. This woman must have biceps as big as my legs!

Slackerdom.com: Although I have never met Tom, the author of this site, I've heard many stories about him from mutual friends in various exploits around Alaska and the globe.

TelemarkTips.com: The world famous forum for skiing. When the snow starts to fly there are a number of locals who are dedicated to posting avalanche conditions and ski reports.

Tim Kelley's Outlook Alaska: Photos, tips, links and stories from a local XC skier. Tim Kelley also maintains the Alaska Lost Ski Areas Project website which contains a massive amount of data!

Tim_UAF Webshots: Misc. photos of climbing in and around the Deltas.

Toby Schwoerer: Toby's blog... lots of good skiing and (heinous) packrafting photos and vids.

Past Climbing Partners

Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches: I climbed with Dahr in the mid 90s and on a couple trips around 2000. When the Iraq war started he packed his bags and became an independent reporter in the MidEast. He has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country.

Once In A Lifetime -What happens when Mike and Alisa and 10-month old Elias set off from Kodiak to Australia on their 37-foot sailboat?: Mike Litzow taught me how to ice climb. He now bums in a sailboat!

Gear

Alpacka Rafts: Local company that makes light durable pack rafts. These things rock! Get one!

Western Mountaineering: High quality down sleeping bags and coats.

Weather & Ski Conditions

Anchorage Mesonet: Current temps around town.

Alyeska Resort Snow Report: Aly conditions.

RWIS Camera Area & Corridor Maps: Use these links to see live web cams of Turnagain and Summit. In the summer you can see how crowded the Russian River is!

Southcentral Alaska Forecast: NOAA forecast site.

Turnagain Pass Avalanche Conditions: This forecast is updated 5 times a week during the winter months!

Thompson Pass Avalanche Conditions: Throughout the winter months Matt Kinney posts snow conditions.