Another Year of Being Humbled by Mountain Adventures | 2024 Year in Review

It was another interesting year, on the one hand I had the largest variety of adventures ever - spanning 5 countries and a large combination of winter and summer trips and objectives. On the year hand, I had many trip were I had to bail, either days before heading out or even 30 meters (vertical) from the summit. I was greatly humbled & experienced new challenges in various terrain. To illustrate this point further, here is a summary:

Mt. Hector - had to abandon pushing to the summit about 30m from it at the pass due to congestion in the small climbable section to access the summit, being a sunny day in the spring there was concern of worsening spring conditions & lastly my group as a whole was not prepared for the last technical section.

Red Peak - Took one approach using the ridge & came across a snow covered narrow section the rest of my group was not comfortable crossing.

Sir Wilfred Laurier - Had to bail near the being of our approach due to worst bushwhacking I ever experienced (a BW5 on the bushwhacking grading system http://www.alpenglow.org/themes/subal...)

Cathedral Mountain - On the mourning of the entire range was sub-merged in a inversion and did not want to attempt this one in a white-out, the glacier traverse would have not been the best idea in a whiteout

Rhondda - Had to cancel due to a forecast blizzard on the planned summit day

Emerald Peak - Had to turn around 100m (vertical) from the summit due to low cloud cover covering the peak causing a whiteout in the winter - would have not been a safe bootpacked / ski with the more technical terrain near the summit

Some of these were good calls, some were just getting unlucky with the weather. But in mountaineering, failure is the norm - otherwise you won't get to enjoy the passion for long. There is always another day and redemption is always sweet.

Peaks:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Vice President
03:32 - Mt. Hector Knob
04:48 - Gullfjellstoppen (Norway)
05:13 - Ganekogorta (Spain)
05:31 - Mount Baldy West / South to Midnight, Midday Loop
06:27 - Mt. Niles
08:01 - Mt. Galatea
09:48 - Mt. Jellicoe
11:03 - Clouds Rest (California)
12:46 - Ski Touring
14:16 - Outro

2024 Totals:
328 km distance traversed
23.2 km of vertical gain

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