Mack's Climbing Page

Mack's Climbing Page

What's a native son of flat, hot, dry Texas doing climbing? If you can figure that one out, please drop me a line, I'd really like to know myself. Until then I think I'll stick with George Mallory's explanation: "to struggle and to understand". I'm still struggling and I darn sure don't understand... Anyway, here are a few pictures and tales from some of my adventures. I'll add more as time permits; I've got mountains to climb (literally).

Cascades:
- The Sisters area & Mt Hood (again), June 2007
- Mt. Adams, July 9, 1996
- North Cascades Exploration (A Brief Look at the Ptarmigan Traverse), August 2001
- Forbidden Peak Area, August 2000
- Glacier Peak, August 13, 1999
- Mt. Hood (7/5/96)
  - Again (6/20/2000)
  - Yet Again in 2001
- Mt. Rainier, Liberty Ridge attempt, June 1999
  - A Nifty Avalanche (6/25/99)
  - The Zipper (6/27/99)
  - Another Try 2000
  - Furher Finger, June 2003
- Mt. Shasta (8/11/95)
  - Again (6/25/98)
- Mt. St. Helens, June 2003
- Mt. Thielson (6/22/98)

Colorado:
- Mt Elbert, September, 1998
- Indian Peaks area, December 1995
- Glacier Gorge, RMNP (3/98)

Elsewhere in the Western US:
- Borah Peak, Idaho, August, 2006
- The Grand Teton, Wyoming, August, 2006
- Beartooths in Montana (9/98)
  - October, 2002
  - Granite Peak, August, 2004
- Wind Rivers & Gannet Peak, Wyoming, Aug, 2004
- Wheeler Peak, NM, June, 2001
- Humphreys Peak, AZ, October, 2001

New England:
- Attempted Presidentials Traverse, Dec., 1996
- Mt Adams (3/02)
- Mt Washington

Adirondacks:
- Mt. Marcy, January, 1998

Canadian Rockies:
- August 2003:
  - Mt Lady Macdonald
  - Mt Fable
  - Lake Louise Rock
  - Mt Whyte & Niblock
  - Mt Edith
  - Mt Athabasa
- July-August 2005:
  - Eiffel Peak
  - Mt Carnarvon
  - Abbot Pass Hut
  - Mt Lefroy
  - Mt Victoria
  - Mt St Piran
  - Mt Temple

Mexico:
- Iztaccíhuatl, February, 2002
- Pico de Orizaba, February, 2002

Nepal:

New England:
- Arethusa Falls
- Chia & Pegasus
- Cinema Gully & Hitchcock Gully, Jan. 2002
- Central Gully, Huntington Ravine, Jan. 14, 2001
- Frankenstein Standard Route
- Huntington Ravine, Dec. 1999
- Landslide Gully
- Mean Miss Treater
- Mt Avalon Ice Flows, Jan. 18, 2004
- Pinnacle Gully, March 2002
- Shoestring Gully, Dec 26, 1998
  - January, 2001
- Willey's Slide, Jan. 1, 1999
- A Good Weekend, February, 2000

Adirondacks:
- Cascade Pass Area, Jan. 17, 1999
- Chapel Pond Area, Jan. 16, 1999
- North Face of Gothics & Chournard's Gully, Feb. 2002
- North Face of Pitchoff Area, March 2000
- Pitchoff Right ("Practice Wall"), Jan. '97 & '98
- Trap Dike, March 6 & 7, 1999

Colorado:
- Boulder Canyon
- Glacier Gorge

Closer to Home:
- Riegelsville, Feb. 1996
  - Again in 2000
- White Oak Canyon

My favorite climbing spot - Seneca Rocks, WV:
- Banana (5.6)
- Bee Sting Corner (5.7)
- Conns_East (5.5)
- Crispy Critter (5.7)
- Ecstasy (5.7)
- Green Wall (5.7)
- Le Gourmet Direct (5.6)
- Neck Press (5.7)
- Rox Salt (5.7)
- Seldom Seen (5.7)
- Thais (5.5)
- West Pole (5.7)
- It's more fun in the rain...

A close runner-up has to be The Gunks, NY

A few other areas:
- Annapolis Rocks, MD
- Harper's Ferry, WV
- Little Stoney Man, VA
- Old Rag Mountain, VA
- Shafer Rocks, PA
- White Rocks at Sugarloaf, MD

The background shot for this page is of two of my brothers (Robert and John) on the lower part of the Elliot Glacier on Mt. Hood in Oregon.

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