Category Archives: week trips
Superior Hiking Trail, Sunday, May 08, 2005
Written on March 3, 2011 at 22:13, by samh
From my Trail Journal, Sunday, 2005-05-08, Sonju Lake The sun hangs in the sky, lazy. The choir of creatures surrounding me don’t mind me being here and have just struck up a tune. A choir with tens of thousands of players, no composer and no sheet music. A jazz combo of epic proportions. The firstContinue Reading
The Art of Glissading
Written on February 24, 2011 at 11:22, by samh
Wikipedia defines glissading as the “..voluntary act of descending a steep slope of snow in a controlled manner either for the sheer thrill of the ride or to bypass tedious scree.” During the summer of 2009 I co-guided a course in ultralight backpacking for the Backpacking Light Wilderness Trekking School alongside Andrew Skurka and GlenContinue Reading
Backpacking the Spanish Peaks of the Madison Range
Written on October 12, 2010 at 16:24, by samh
The crew I was part of in college refers to ourselves as Flavor Country and a small subset of this crew has been taking an annual backpacking trip since somewhere around 2002 or 2003. I and my roomate (also a part of Flavor Country) have the fortune of living in a place where there isContinue Reading
Parcour de Wild 2009
Written on November 13, 2009 at 10:51, by samh
On October 11th, 2009 Matt Lutz and Sam Haraldson drove to the Continental Divide along the desolate Montana Hwy 200. Arriving at the 5,610 ft trailhead and finding just shy of a meter of snow paired with temperatures around 10 deg F the duo put on their hardmen game face, snowshoes, backpacks, and began climbingContinue Reading