A gentle week off in the Canadian Rockies - Mt Robson Provincial Park and Jasper National Park. (Note: there are 18 images altogether. To see them all, open the image gallery).

I am planning to do the three peaks challenge some time next year. For anybody not from the UK or not familiar with this - the three peaks challenge involves walking up the highest mountain in Scotland, England and Wales in 24 hours - including all the driving between the peaks.
I think I will probably go for the recommended route and timings:
5pm Climb Ben Nevis
10pm Complete Ben Nevis and Drive to Scafell
5am Climb Scafell Pike
10am Complete Scafell Pike and drive to Snowdonia
1pm Climb Snowdon
5pm Complete Snowdon
 

It’s always there – visible when you’re driving I-90 back to Bozeman from the west. I’ve looked at it for years, that vertical white stripe, because it stands out all summer. The blaze is the feature for which the mountain is named – a snowfield, as much as one hundred feet wide in places that runs vertically for 1200’ to 2000’ depending whether you’re there in June, July, August or September. I had heard it’s skiable year round so August seemed a nice time to check it out.

For about the last 10 years, and right about this time of year, I’ve made it a point to ski a classic line at the top of the Bridger Mountains. After all, you just can’t call it summer without some skiing in July. To me, this event marks the start of the summer season in Montana, regardless of the weather. Okay, to be honest, the only reason we wait until this late in the season is for the opening of the Forest Service road to Fairy Lake. This year due to a healthy snowpack, the road didn’t open until July 1st.&n

 
MADiDEA 2010 Val Grigna, Italy

June 11-13, 2010
Pian dei Resinelli
 
5th International Mountains & Diabetes Meet

After heading east and being nonplussed with the climbing and wilderness opportunities, we decided to take things as face value and appreciate the various aspects of each locale we visited. We appreciated basically everything east of South Dakota as quickly as possible, taking pictures from the car, not stopping to see much other than a few stops at various relatives of ours along the way.

I would like to share with you all the account of my recent trip, so I will be blogging and posting pictures from the excursion which went from late June 08-November 08. I will be doing this in several installments--hopefully it will entertain and amuse.
Pre Departure Meditations

I have been Type one since 1998, when I was 16 years old. I had no idea how I was going to re-learn how to eat and behave, let alone where I would be ten years down the road. Now I am 26, married and I climb (up to 5.11) boulder to v4 and have spent months at a clip, hiking and climbing in various mountain ranges in North America.

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