Tag: alpine

• Become a More Savvy Backcountry Traveler: FOR FREE

  

  I was recently introduced to the idea of becoming 1 percent better each day by the extraordinarily savvy Rob Coppolilo. If you get 1 percent better each day and you go out 30 days in a season, you could be 30 percent better by the end of your season! That’s huge!

  mallorie estenson

  December 9, 2022

  skiing

  adventure, alpental, alpine, backcountry, Backcountry Skiing, baker, guide, guiding, mount baker backcountry, pacific northwest, PNW, Ski, skiing, snoqualmie pass, stevens pass, travel

• Welcome to Alaska (aka Crevasse Whip)

  

  The fall stopped just as quickly as it had started and I found myself slumped over, hanging in my harness deep inside a crevasse. I thought to myself: that’s quite the welcome to Alaska.

  mallorie estenson

  June 29, 2019

  Alaska, climbing, mountaineering

  Alaska, alaska range, alpine, blogger, Chugach, climbing course, crevasse, crevasse fall, crevasse rescue, crevasse whip, denali, kahiltna, kahiltna dome, Mallorie Estenson, mountain trip, mountaineering, mountains, travel, whipper, woman climber, woman mountaineer, women, women climbers, women who climb

• My Job

  

  “So you take people hiking?” Yeah, something like that.

  mallorie estenson

  July 13, 2017

  climbing, mountaineering, Writings

  alpine, alpinism, blogger, climber girl, climbing blogger, inspiration, journalism, learning, love, mountain guide, mountain madness, mountaineering, pacific northwest, PNW, travel, Western Washington University, writer, writing

• Loss

  It finally happened. I lost my first climbing friend. A little over a year ago, I wrote a piece for a magazine about accidents in the alpine. I asked a few climber friends for sources on the subject, and eventually got directed to a couple of climbers that had a boulder pull on them while…

  mallorie estenson

  July 28, 2016

  Writings

  accidents, alpine, climbing, Laurel Fan, loss, mountaineering, PNW, remembering, waddington, Washington