tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28595110867351434582024-03-06T00:35:22.179-08:00splittervillejanet bergman wilkinsonJanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278907987906781774noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-46997391050305043412014-08-15T09:43:00.000-07:002014-08-15T09:45:26.494-07:00(Almost) Wild Horses
“That’s only 47, there are three missing,” said Anna. We were
riding around in the cool shadow of the rising sun, counting horses at the 7D
Ranch in Wyoming. We’d just finished a patrol of the area surrounding the gate
of a mountainside pasture, where the majority of the 50-horse herd grazed,
nuzzled each other, swatted their tails, and watched us lazily.
We’d given ourselves 2 hours to Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278907987906781774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-58070504982984065022014-04-02T05:40:00.000-07:002014-04-02T05:40:19.818-07:00Days You Remember - PassionMountain Hardwear has a great new series of one-minute inspirational videos. Each has a theme around the hashtag #daysyouremember. Well imagine my surprise when the most recent one featured...me!
Days You Remember | Passion from Mountain Hardwear on Vimeo.
It's not every day that documentation of a 'failed' trip becomes a movie about passion.
Many thanks to Freddie (who shot all of that Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278907987906781774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-33050971197000930242014-02-21T06:09:00.000-08:002014-02-21T07:38:38.896-08:00You Can't Always Get What You Want: A Patagonia Photo Journal
I returned a few weeks ago from a climbing trip to Argentina with Liv Sansoz and
Freddie Wilkinson. This photo journal below is cross posted from Mountain Hardwear. Liv also wrote a great report about our trip here and Mountain Hardwear compiled some of our team Instagrams here.
In El Chalten, Argentina, life for climbers revolves around the meteogram, or weather forecast. Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278907987906781774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-5967229673956648652013-11-29T19:27:00.000-08:002014-01-26T09:57:43.612-08:00The Practice Trip
As I prepare for another trip with Liv Sansoz this winter, I look back on our first ‘practice trip’ this past spring. We’d been trying to plan something for 18 months, but because of our hectic schedules (lives of professional 30-somethings!), injuries (lives of active people!) and other plans, a trip had eluded us. Finally, Liv just suggested we climb in her home mountains around Chamonix. Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278907987906781774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-58612146404791546182013-01-18T11:08:00.001-08:002013-02-16T16:53:39.923-08:00Ice Climbing: I love it because I kind of hate it<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Emilie Drinkwater, India
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Other reasons to spend the first weekend in March in Boston with the AAC:
Help raise money that makes the American Alpine Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278907987906781774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-14435275150285420922011-12-20T05:41:00.000-08:002013-02-16T17:04:44.542-08:00Pendulums and Permaculture
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It's in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-8480562290321843832011-06-16T06:56:00.000-07:002011-06-18T04:50:40.923-07:00Horizontal AlpinismFrench poppies"The idea of a circuit was devised by Fred Bernick as a sort of horizontal alpinism, a substitute for a mountaineering route..." -Fontainebleau Climbs by Jo and Francoise Montchausse and Jacky GodoffeBouldering was my climbing childhood. My friends and I must have done the nine-hour round trip drive from the University of New Hampshire to the Shawangunks to go bouldering at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-18899443983542983522011-05-16T03:12:00.000-07:002011-06-20T01:05:29.187-07:00The Eight-Mile LoopDrizzle splashed on my cheeks and eyelashes as I jogged along the far side of an eight-mile loop behind our cabin in Madison, New Hampshire. A quickly thickening canopy of deciduous forest grew over the Class VI dirt road. I smiled, realizing that I felt no pain. That, and because I’d caught a glimpse of a shiny wet leather couch off to the side. It belonged there, an erratic, as if a glacier hadUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-57462166442413340162011-04-19T06:25:00.000-07:002011-04-26T08:06:55.670-07:00Greg Mortenson Must Step Down <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt;Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-68157193001216414182011-03-16T18:11:00.000-07:002011-03-17T08:08:36.836-07:00The Ides of March@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-78279021364885469902011-02-23T08:33:00.000-08:002011-02-23T13:09:13.876-08:00New TricksMy friend Mark has been on a major climbing expedition for 18 of the past 20 summers. He and his savvy wife Teresa also own a hugely successful and highly respected custom woodworking business in Massachusetts that they built from scratch. The high value they place on travel means that the business has always been able to run with or without them (One of their great adventures was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-82055150903345304062011-01-29T10:24:00.000-08:002011-01-29T13:27:51.102-08:00Newfoundland AdventureIt must be dark, cold January in New Hampshire, as I’ve found myself nostalgically recalling stories from a rock climbing trip to Newfoundland with Sarah Garlick and Kirsten Kremer in 2009. The adventure started at friends Alycia and Timmy’s wedding on Cape Cod in late August. We picked up Kremer at Boston Logan airport the next morning, proceeded to New Hampshire to pack Sarah’s Previa Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-89863742701846785122010-12-03T05:00:00.000-08:002010-12-09T08:55:11.405-08:00Baby Waiting, Lebron Hating and Climbing TrainingI have been here in my old stomping grounds of Chagrin Falls, Ohio the past 10 days, waiting for my little sister to deliver her first bundle of joy into the world. This is the longest I have spent here in recent years, so it has been fun to settle in for a spell. Our extended family put on an ‘Original Thanksgiving’ last week, which we do every five or so years. We dressed up like pilgrims andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-12852572056507221512010-10-27T18:05:00.000-07:002010-10-28T18:13:51.104-07:00Italy, Canada and SalsaA short list of observations from a few weeks of travel in September and October:1) If you find yourself in a mountain hut in Italy singing karaoke, just go with it. My host for the first few days of my fall climbing trip was Jean Luca Cavalli, who I like to think of as the Italian version of Doug Madara (a remarkably motivated middle aged climber who gets out more days, and is stronger than, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-14987014333671259882010-09-25T10:29:00.001-07:002010-09-25T10:43:28.634-07:00Around the Dinner Tablehere we are, around the dinner table at the Mountain Hardwear athlete innovation meeting in yosemite, california. this was a room full of visionaries; whether their role is to run a business, develop a product or put those products to the true test. inspiring to say the least. you can see we were well fed, too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-46349583982230587782010-07-31T04:49:00.000-07:002011-04-01T20:22:49.092-07:00Breaking The Cycle of PainI grew up riding horses competitively. 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I sometimes think about how selfish climbing is. An addiction that is taking up too much of my time. The weddings and other events I have missed while on expedition...the time and resources I have used to 'feed the rat' over the years...
Then I think about what it has done for me...learning of an eyeopening new lifestyle based on simplicity and functioning at the actual geographic fringes...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-52962747123172678362010-04-17T06:10:00.000-07:002010-04-18T07:46:48.090-07:00'For Climbing'A feature article about climbing in Cuba that I wrote was just published in Rock & Ice magazine. The article explores the threatened Cuban climbing scene, and the extraordinary efforts being put forth by a few Americans and Cubans to make climbing there possible. The lovely and talented Anne Skidmore took all the killer photos.You can pick up the June 2010 issue on news stands now, or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859511086735143458.post-33799516664485517852010-04-05T06:00:00.000-07:002010-04-05T12:41:46.867-07:00Love From The RoadFreddie, Tagger and I started our spring break road trip at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. The steep sandstone is a perfect way to get the winter muscles back in rock climbing shape. I've spent 7 of the past 10 March breaks at the Red, climbing both my first 5.11 and first 5.12 there over the years. No big breakthroughs climbing-wise this time; seems I need more than a week to get the required Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0