Gear Articles tagged ‘peak bagging’

Destiny Manifested Part II: Gear for Peak Bagging

By: Andy Chapman | September 19th, 2011
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Andy Wellman and Diane Chapman going up Wilson Peak

The conditions encountered on your average summer or autumn peak-bagging outing can vary considerably: one minute you are blasted by the sun, the next minute it’s hailing or even snowing. Relatively long walks or exposed scrambles mean that you want to bring just enough to deal with precipitation and temperature swings but not so much that you are busting a gut carrying it all. This post is focused on what you need and (implicitly) what you want to leave behind. Read More …

Destiny Manifested: Peak-Bagging Colorado’s 14ers

By: Andy Chapman | September 7th, 2011
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Longs Peak and the Diamond

Sometimes the universe seems to conspire against you. My best efforts to have meaningful (or any) progress climbing this spring and summer have been consistently shat upon by the cosmos. After six months of setbacks, I was hardly surprised when my wife/climbing partner hurt her wrist a week before our planned road trip. Accepting that my climbing agenda had been set adrift on the cosmic tides, I simply threw my hands up and decided that I was along for the ride. No Sierra granite for us. Time to find a Plan B.

Having taken a fatalistic approach to this chunk of time off, I looked for signs.  Diane was keen to get into the backcountry, but I am loathe to carry a pack without the carrot of climbing something.  Humping loads from point A to point B to point C is personally unappealing. Could we find common ground? I asked the universe. Read More …