By - Bill Urbanski EDITOR’S NOTES: All teams on Denali are required to register their team names with the National Park Service. Stickers are provided to identify gear caches on the mountain. Our team name was TZT2 (“To Zee Top 2” – the first TZT team made an unsuccessful summit bid in 2007). TZT2 consisted
By - Bill Urbanski Summer is right around the corner here at CTS Base Camp in Pennsylvania. This means hiking in shorts, rock climbing outdoors, and even the occasional simple pleasure of a dip in the backyard pool. But my mind is elsewhere. My mind is on snow, glaciers, and mountaineering. For the
If you ask me to climb a mountain the day before your birthday so we can camp on the summit to watch the sunrise on your birthday, as has been your tradition for a number of decades, I'm inclined to say, “Yes”. If you're cute and female, I'm legally barred from saying, “No”. And that
I sat down on a rock, stuffed my feet into my new pair of boots and stepped into my crampons. As soon as I stood up excitement filled me, After all, this would be my first time ice climbing. Brian handed me the rope and a pair of leashless tool, I tied into