Chapter 2

Three days and my summer begins. While it will not be without work, I will be traveling to the Cascades this coming week. I though it might be worth taking a moment to share the excitement of glacier mountaineering. Over the course of the next month, I will be climbing mountains that are well known, and other that some may never hear of.



Mountaineering, in many regards, can be boiled down to calculated risks. Objective hazards such as rock fall, seracs, avalanches, crevasse, and more, pose a serious risk to those of us who choose to travel in this terrain. However, the understanding of these risks and the natural beauty of such remote place provides numerous rewards. In the end, you find your true self and the truth in others.

"It's not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves"
-Sir Edmund Hillary