Iceman957

I finally did Iroquois this past winter. In the past, I’d do my almost annual jaunt up Algonquin and never leave myself enough time or daylight to go down Algonquin, over Boundary, up Iroquois and back to the trail head at the Loj. Well, I planned it better in March and slept at the trail head in our Element, headed out in the early hours and found myself happily atop Algonquin i ntime for first lunch. It was so easy to leisurely take in the view from atop Iroquois alone on a clear day with little wind. Beautiful.

I made several trips to Alaska a handful of years ago. A group of geologists held a field conference in Juneau and visited several glaciers including Hole-in-the-Wall, Mendenhall, Herbert and Eagle. We tromped around and made a choice of which glaciers to bring students to the following summer in order to do field research. We returned the next summer, did our thing, and I ventured on a few trips with Alaska Discovery. That’s when I first kayaked Glacier Bay and also ran the Tatshenshini River – at flood – in a flotilla of rafts. I returned the following summer to guide for Alaska Disco on 2 of their inn-to-inn trips where we kayaked, hiked, rode bikes, and generally enjoyed a selection of SE Alaska’s finest.

I have renewed my interest in developing a plan to climb Rainier. There’s a Father/Daughter pair on 43Things and they have the same goal. I made contact and we’ll see what happens. I have an old friend who is/was the outing club director at Williams College. We always tried to get something started but he never had enough time to devote to the project. He once attempted Rainier and wanted to try again. Scott, if you are out there, let me know and maybe we can get this going again.

Ed Viesters is something of a hero to me. Wouldn’t it be great to climb with him? Maybe he’d like to touch base with a glacial geologist like myself and exchange info. I could certainly benefit from someone who has climbed Rainier as many times as Ed!!!