Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014Features Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good, the Great, and the Awesome, Peter Croft calls the Palisades "the most mountainous mountains in the Sierra Nevada." Half hidden behind foothills, these spiny 13,000 to 14,000 foot peaks have allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics and wanderers. Doug Robinson follows a "trail of mentors" that leads from the early mountaineers of the Sierra Club, to generations of prolific soloists such as the

It's all fun and games until someone gets dead

self-discovery and resistance

The irrepressible (or as the artist Jeremy Collins would say "the uncontrollable

The Plot Thickens

And Luke Mehall narrates the origin of Creeksgiving

Powderchaser Steve on meteorology and the pursuit of the untracked

Derek Franz has nightmares of bones

Tech Tip: Go Dig a Hole

it's not all deep powder and blue sky in the backcountry

Consider it your guide through the gray season sometimes known as late fall

Local Hero Kelly Cordes is more than familiar with "disaster style" and margaritas

shares her experiences of what it was like to grow up "in the shadow of his myth