From North to South: Scrambling toward the summit

From North to South

Amy's ramblings. Once upon a time these ramblings pertained to my 5 months in Guatemala and Honduras. Then they followed the ebb and flow of my final semester in Alaska. From there things really went south ... to Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. After 8 months in the Andes, I fell back under Alaska's spell … working at a newspaper and wandering mountains. Now I'm somewhat south again ... in Jackson Hole, WY, teaching ski school on the clock and making fresh tracks off the clock.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Scrambling toward the summit

Last weekend Mark, Jennifer and I made it nearly to the top of Teewinot, located on the northern flank of the Grand Teton. We got a late start, and didn't want to get caught downclimbing in the dark, and create an epic for ourselves, so we turned around about 25 minutes from the summit. We made it back to the parking lot just as the light was shimmering into sunset. I'm super excited to try again for the summit, but not making the summit had little to do with the outcome of the day, which by all accounts was extraordinarily satisfying. The view from the rocky perches we scaled of the vast, yellow and orange covered valley below were striking. And the company ... great!