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April 12, 2012

Snowdon West Buttress

Keith had climbed Snowdon multipule times but had never been up the West Buttress or down the Northwest Ridge.  We decided to make a day of […]
March 21, 2012

Training for the Himalayas Part 2

Julie is training to climb Nun and Kun in Kashmir this summer.  Julie came up to Durango and climbed with me in January during an Intro […]
March 11, 2012

Intro to Mountaineering

Erin came down from Boulder to learn some skills and gain some experience in the world of winter mountaineering.  Since it was only her we tweeked […]
January 11, 2012

Team Getting Ready for Ecuador's Volcanoes

We are getting set for a 12 day Cotopaxi and Chimborazo climb with a group of 10, and the guides are in Quito, Ecuador making final […]
January 5, 2012

Training for the Himalayas with Engineer

Julie is planning to climb Nun and Kun in Kashmir this summer and came to Durango for a little training on Engineer Mountain. We hiked up […]
January 2, 2012

Winter Ascent of Engineer

Tim came out to Colorado and once again crushed it!  We climbed Engineer Mountain car to car in about 7 hours.  It was a pretty windy […]
October 20, 2011

Guided Climbing Threatened in our National Parks

In their October newletter, the AMGA highlights some of the issues (and what we as a climbing community can do about them), revolving around the attempt […]
September 4, 2011

Pigeon and Turret

Tim has wanted to climb Pigeon and Turret since he first saw them years ago, but Pigeon and Turret are big peaks deep in the Weminuche. […]
September 4, 2011

Great Basins Combo

Gary had been into Chicago Basin back in the 70’s, and had left with unfinished business.  He had climbed Jupiter and Windom but bad weather denied […]
August 7, 2011

8 Day Alpine Leadership Course

Day 1: We started out the trip climbing at X-Rock, where we learned Belaying, Rapelling, Climbing Technique, and Anchor Systems.  In the afternoon we made a […]
August 1, 2011

Wham-O!

Durango locals, Alice and her son Paul S. along with Sean E. linked up with myself and fellow guide Ryan to hike into Vestal Basin for […]
August 1, 2011

SWAG's 'Have you camera ready' trip!

Becky and Dan came out from Missouri last week to join us for our ‘Best of The Weminuche’ backpacking trip. This trip takes on almost 30 […]
July 31, 2011

The Machine on North Twilight

Tim is a machine.  The other day Tim and I hiked 13.5 miles and climbed North Twilight (13,075′).  Car to car in 8 hours with 45 […]
July 8, 2011

Offering some assistance in Chicago Basin

A few days after climbing in the Black Canyon Chris was headed back out to Colorado to check out some peaks in No Name Basin.  No […]
March 13, 2011

Intro to Mountaineering

This last week, Jeff, Matt, Mike, Jamie and Jason joined Matt and I for what turned out to be a great time in the San Juans. […]
February 22, 2011

Southwest Adventure Guides check out the conditions

Dave and I got together this week to go climbing on some new terrain. We spent Monday morning in the ‘Grad School’ area of the Ice […]
February 22, 2011

Old time friends get together for annual ice climbing

For the second year in a row Roger, Michael and Brian got together in Ouray to fine tune their ice climbing skills with Gary and myself. […]
January 31, 2011

January Mountaineering- Perfect Conditions

Family and friends came together from all over the country to participate in one of SWAG’s winter mountaineering courses over the last weekend of January. We […]
January 17, 2011

Winter Mountaineering in the San Juans

Jack from Atlanta and Kathy from New Jersey came out to the San Juans for four days of winter mountaineering. We were in Cascade Canyon for […]
January 3, 2011

Ice Climbing in Colorado

Chris came out for a three day weekend to do some ice climbing.  We spent the first day just North of Durango at Cascade Canyon getting […]
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