Hiking, bushwhacking, trekking, ridge-running, scree-surfing, peakbagging, scrambling; if I brought my boots, but left the rope and crampons at home, then this is the where those kids of trips are.
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Little Girstle Trilogy – Part 2: Spur Peak
The winter of 2025/26 was the all-time coldest on record (so the coldest winter since recording started in 1904). From December through March, Fairbanks’ average temperature was -13.6 Fahrenheit. But after 2 months of cabin fever, a nice weekend finally materialized at the end of January which warranted scheming up a real adventure. I think…
Camping in Canada’s Tombstone Territorial Park, and hiking Mount Frank Rae
Tombstone Territorial Park has been on my “someday” list of places to visit, and it could’ve easily sat on that list for 10 years more before I’d actually have done it. But in 2024, after our plan A on the Dalton Highway was shut down by the grapefruit forest fire road closure, and as plan…
Cashews River and Wiehl Mountain: an Alaskan Brooks Range Traverse
This trip report is one that I hope brings awareness of the Cashews River as a packrafting objective. Prior to testing the waters for ourselves, I had just two pieces of beta to go off of: an Ed Plumb video on youtube, and a photography website with helpful photos. I gathered that it was probably…
Our Days in Chititu
McCarthy longtime locals were calling this the worst mosquito summer they could remember -and I don’t think they were lying. To minimize losses to our precious sanity and blood reserves, we had to wear our long-sleeve wind breakers and gloves. Which wouldn’t be that bad by itself, but under the hot summer sun these layers…
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