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·Oct 1

Climbing Mt Whitney via the East Buttress

Highest peak at 14,505′ / 4,421 m in the lower 48 Initially published on https://getromain.substack.com/p/climbing-mt-whitney-via-the-east Back to back with Charlotte Dome, a spectacular climb.

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Climbing Mt Whitney via the East Buttress

Highest peak at 14,505′ / 4,421 m in the lower 48

Initially published on https://getromain.substack.com/p/climbing-mt-whitney-via-the-east

Back to back with Charlotte Dome, a spectacular climb.

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·Oct 1

Climbing Charlotte Dome in Sequoia

An amazing 5.8 climb, 12 miles in Sequoia / King’s Canyon National Park Initially published on https://getromain.substack.com/p/climbing-charlotte-dome-in-sequoia. Coming from the East side of the High Sierra at the end of September.

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Climbing Charlotte Dome in Sequoia

An amazing 5.8 climb, 12 miles in Sequoia / King’s Canyon National Park

Initially published on https://getromain.substack.com/p/climbing-charlotte-dome-in-sequoia.

Coming from the East side of the High Sierra at the end of September.

First is going up Kearsarge Pass in the early morning

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·Aug 21

The traverse of the Donjek route in Kluane, Yukon

This was a long awaited trip, a culmination of 10 years of adventurous off-route travel via foot and packraft. It did not disappoint. Splendid & Otherworldly! We started near Destruction Bay on the border of Kluane National Park. …

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The traverse of the Donjek route in Kluane, Yukon

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·Aug 6

Climbing Prusik Peak in the Enchantments

The Enchantments is a gorgeous Alpine wilderness are in the region of Leavenworth in the state of Washington. After a moderately early start at the eight-mile campground, we took the direction of the East trail head. We arrived the day before late and were surprised by the pretty warm weather. …

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·Jul 4

Snake Dike — Climbing Yosemite Half Dome

A long awaited climb in the same spirit of moderate classics like Royal Arches! Reading the reports, Snake Dike is famous for long run-outs with one bolt between anchor (but on 5.4 max terrain) or also nicknamed Snake Hike.

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·Jul 2

Jordan Trail : Dana to Petra

After the Wadi Rum and Jebel Rum traverses was the last section of the trip: the long awaited trek from Dana to Petra, a bit “wilder” than expected. To save time and avoiding a snow storm (yes), we left just after finishing the Jebel Rum traverse. Dana is a small…

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·Jun 12

Across Namibia and its deserts and wildlife

Similarly to Iceland, this trip took a few reschedules before materializing. The good thing is that overall we got great conditions, with weather even on the cold side a few days and probably only 1/3 of the 2020 crowd, and we managed to do everything as planned, if not better. …

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Across Namibia and its deserts and wildlife

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·Jun 7

Climbing Middle Cathedral East Buttress

One of the longest and more impressive moderate climb in the Yosemite valley, part of the top 50 North American classics, Middle Cathedral East Buttress. After some continuous training and successful Royal Arches, and 5.7–5.9 multi pitches in the Valley and Tahoe, we went for it. In May the days…

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·May 31

Catalina Island

Where is Santa Catalina Island? It is South of Los Angeles in California and pat of the Channel Islands archipelago. Catalina might not be the best for remoteness, but it is famous for its trans-Catalina trail and buffalos. It offers a small airport which is not a basic air strip. We previously tried to flight there in November but had to reroute to Joshua Tree instead because of the thick fog on the Island. This time in March was the other way around, as the forecast for the Island cleared up last minute to allow one night.

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Catalina Island

Where is Santa Catalina Island? It is South of Los Angeles in California and pat of the Channel Islands archipelago.

Catalina might not be the best for remoteness, but it is famous for its trans-Catalina trail and buffalos. It offers a small airport which is not a basic air strip.

We previously tried to flight there in November but had to reroute to Joshua Tree instead because of the thick fog on the Island. This time in March was the other way around, as the forecast for the Island cleared up last minute to allow one night.