Please join KAF Adventures and the Mazamas Expedition Committee on April 26th to hear Jason Wheeler share his climb of Denali via the Cassin Ridge, the fast-and-light technqiues he used, and how you can apply it to the Northwest Mountains.
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My Life in an Urban Sea-Level Ski Town
“Why don’t you stay in the wilderness? Because that isn’ t where it’s at; it’s back in the city, back in downtown St. Louis, back in Los Angeles. The final test [of a wilderness adventure] is whether your experience of the sacred in nature enables you to cope more effectively with the problems of man… You go [to nature] to re-establish your contact with the core of things, where it’s really at, in order to enable you to come back into the world of man and operate more effectively.”
–Willi Unsoeld: mountain climber, theologian, founding faculty at The Evergreen State College
I love snow. I love skiing it, climbing it, studying it, camping in it, and talking about it. And I live 52 miles from my home ski area. At sea level. In a city of over 600,000 people. “Wha-?” You ask. “Exactly,” I say.
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