scrambling – Perpetual Weekend by Jim Harris

High Uintas Wilderness

Jim Harris — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:36:08 +0000

My dad and I head out for a trip each year, just the two of us. The past couple years we’ve planned to head into the Uintas but make last minute re-routes when the forecast inevitably begins projecting two feet of wet snow. So, we’ve ended up walking desert canyons the past couple years, chewing carefully to keep the sand-crunching to a minimum. If there’s a breeze in the Utah desert it’s pretty much impossible to keep sand out of whatever’s...

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Map’s Edge

Jim Harris — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:16:48 +0000

From Idaho, we motored north on Highway 93, into Montana and my old stomping grounds in the Bitterroot Valley. I bored Allison reminiscing about ski adventures gone awry as we passed Trapper Peak, Como and El Cap, Sky Pilot and Gash Point, Saint Mary’s and Saint Joe and finally Lolo. Looking back, it’s pretty incredible we made it through all those descents relatively uninjured given how uninformed we often were. Pedaling around Missoula, I was impressed by the places that...

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Wasatch Perverse Traverse

Jim Harris — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:38:50 +0000

“Ha! You’ve got to be kidding me!” was Noah’s email response to a note I’d sent asking if he wanted to link up Mt Olympus with Twin Peaks. He attached a map with a red line he’d just then been drawing that connected Olympus to Twin Peaks to Lone Peak. My first thought when I saw Noah’s map was “That’s huge!” my second thought was “…well maybe.” Yesterday morning we left the car at 4:30am and started up Mt Olympus....

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Sangre de Christo Wandering

Jim Harris — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:32:33 +0000

These are my favorite photos from the past couple weeks spent working the the field.

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Crestone Scramble

Jim Harris — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:56:29 +0000

I first heard of the traverse between Crestone Peak and the Needle from Austin. He had just finished climbing the Needle’s Ellingwood Arrete and was enjoying the summit when a climber asked where the traverse began. Austin pointed him towards the downclimbing that begins the route towards the Peak and was horrified when, seconds later, the soloist tumbled off the 2000′ face. I decided to give the traverse a try in the opposite direction that the ill-fated climber took so...

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