Archive for North Cascades National Park
Mount Baker in the sky [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags forest fire, jatp, JSM 2018, Kulshan, Mount Baker, North Cascades National Park, plane picture, Seattle, smog, volcano on September 23, 2018 by xi'an
photography exhibit in Seattle
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Brittany Aäe, Caffe Vita, climbing, Fremont, Mazama, North Cascade Climbing Guides, North Cascades National Park, Seattle, Washington State on October 4, 2016 by xi'an
For readers in the Seattle vicinity, just mentioning that a friend and climbing guide, Brittany Aäe, is holding a photograph exhibit at Caffe Vita, 4301 Fremont Avenue North, in Seattle, this month. Enjoy.
Argentan, 30th and 17th and 7th edition(s)
Posted in Running, Travel with tags Argentan, France, half-marathon, Malakoff, Normandy, North Cascades National Park, veteran (V2) on October 2, 2015 by xi'an
When I started the ‘Og, in 2008, I was about to run the 23rd edition of the Argentan half-marathon… Seven years later, I am once again getting ready for the race, after a rather good training season, between the mountains of the North Cascade and the track of Malakoff. with the last week in England, Holland, and Canada having seen close to two trainings a day. (Borderline stress injury, maybe!) Weather does not look too bad this year, so we’ll see tomorrow how I fare against myself (and the other V2 runners, incidentally!).
climbing in Mazama, WA
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags climbing, Liberty Bells range, Mazama, Methow river, NCGM, North Cascades National Park, Washington State, Winthrop on September 12, 2015 by xi'an
We spent the last few days of our Washington State vacations in Mazama, last hamlet up the Methow
Valley and I found upon arrival that one of the four houses there hosted a mountaineering store and a climbing guide company! With too little time to organise a whole day climb of the nearby Liberty Bells, I spent a short morning with Brittany climbing a nearby bolted cliff called Fun Rock. Thanks to Brittany’s efficiency, I managed to climb six pitches, including two chimneys, which I particularly affectionate!, and a slightly more challenging route in the upper fives. I was very glad to work with Brittany, who is an amazing young woman now full time mountain guide and running coach, besides being a terrific climber and long-distance runner. Her website, Magnetic North, is definitely worth a visit….
no country for ‘Og snaps?!
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags blogging, Maple Pass loop, North Cascades National Park, Og, R, Rainy Pass, Washington State on August 30, 2015 by xi'an
A few days ago, I got an anonymous comment complaining about my tendency to post pictures “no one is interested in” on the ‘Og and suggesting I moved them to another electronic media like Twitter or Instagram as to avoid readers having to sort through the blog entries for statistics related ones, to separate the wheat from the chaff… While my first reaction was (unsurprisingly) one of irritation, a more constructive one is to point out to all (un)interested readers that they can always subscribe by RSS to the Statistics category (and skip the chaff), just like R bloggers only post my R related entries. Now, if more ‘Og’s readers find the presumably increasing flow of pictures a nuisance, just let me know and I will try to curb this avalanche of pixels… Not certain that I succeed, though!
