The Mighty Mendenhall Glacier

10/28/2011 – No more than two hours after having landed in Alaska (back on October 3rd), I was out hiking around the Mendenhall Valley with a couple of my WEMT classmates.  The glacier was a powerful piece of geologic and climatological history that immediately instilled in me the belief that Alaska is something special and […]

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Alaska and a WEMT

10/3/2011 to 10/31/2011 – With the culmination of rafting season came my first empty fall I’ve ever had, and with that, I felt an educational void.  To fill this void, I headed to Juneau, AK to take a EMT + W (wilderness) class through the month of October.  The month was largely spent inside the […]

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A Few Randos…

I figured I should toss a post together before finals week really sets in, so here are some pictures.  First, you have Jonny Cromwell skiing a gnarly rock drop where he kicked off a nice little slab slide out of the East Portal.  Next is a photo of Alex Umbhau ripping some single track through […]

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Twin Falls

Being trapped in the great indoors gets to you.  After two weeks of papers and finals, and a week at home shopping for Christmas gifts and hanging with the family, my outdoor itch had become too much for me, so I woke up early with the idea of a hike in mind.  Being home in […]

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