Recent content by DaddyLongLegs

Earlier this month, I did a splendid loop in the Carter range with a night at Carter Notch Hut. I utilized the Camp Dodge shortcut to make the return to the Nineteen Mile Brook trailhead easier. Even though I was solo, I met a lot of great people at the hut, who greatly enhanced my experience...

Thanks Miehoff! I didn't have pen and paper, so I had to just keeping singing it over and over all the way down the Pumpelly Ridge! I'm in California, but will be back in New England next summer. I've been invited to perform on a radio show or two in New England, so I might be making the...

Hi folks. In preparation for my 2-day Pemi Loop this past summer, I hiked the Pumpelly Ridge Trail on Mt. Monadnock. During that hike, I wrote the lyrics for "I Don't Want To Think About Her Anymore", which is a climbing-themed rock song. Released at the end of November, the song has been...

I hiked the Pemi-Loop on August 7-8, spending the night at Galehead Hut. Met lots of great people at the hut. If you were one of them, give me a shout! Here is my trip report.

Well that makes it easy, especially considering the two-year old in tow. I would recommend doing some of the well-maintained trails marked on the national park map. I've done many of them and they have all been nice. You might also consider taking the palms-to-pines tram on Mt. San Jacinto...

The release date of The Wildest Dream has been moved to August 2010.

Hey Pudgy. Are you bringing any climbing gear? Are you looking for things to do outside of JTree or only in JTree? The Ryan Mt. hike is nice and relaxing. I've done it twice. Incidentally, the first time I did it I had just moved to SoCal. I saw several very attractive women on the trail...

Now I know why Andy Falender always looks so happy in photos in the AMC magazine.

I actually just posted a somewhat lengthy spoof related to this film on my (non-commercial) blog. Find out the abominable truth about what really happened to Mallory and Irvine. ;)

Two books that tell Bonatti's side of the story (which is now widely accepted) about the 1954 Italian K2 expedition are The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti and K2:Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs (with David Roberts). Here is my review of the latter book.