Re: Spencer Swanger
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:47 am
I didn't know that Spence had skied Elbert.
That book's available right here on this site: http://www.14ers.com/books_dawson.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Very cool photo. The inside cover reads: "Cover photo of Mount Sneffels (Routes 3.4.7, East Couloir, and 3.4.5, North Buttress) from Cirque Mountain, by Spence Swanger."
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, skidaddle. I was looking at all those photos in the slide presentation, of Spence doing all those 14er winter ascents, and thinking about how we all tend to assume that winter ascents, or skiing 14ers, is some kind of new phenomenon. Those photos reminded me that there were guys like you, and Al, and Lou, and Spence, who were doing this stuff decades before I even did my first 14er! And they did it without fleece, or Gore-tex, or a GPS, or the Internet. And I can't even imagine how heavy those boots and skis and packs must have been. Impressive. And humbling.
That book's available right here on this site: http://www.14ers.com/books_dawson.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Very cool photo. The inside cover reads: "Cover photo of Mount Sneffels (Routes 3.4.7, East Couloir, and 3.4.5, North Buttress) from Cirque Mountain, by Spence Swanger."
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, skidaddle. I was looking at all those photos in the slide presentation, of Spence doing all those 14er winter ascents, and thinking about how we all tend to assume that winter ascents, or skiing 14ers, is some kind of new phenomenon. Those photos reminded me that there were guys like you, and Al, and Lou, and Spence, who were doing this stuff decades before I even did my first 14er! And they did it without fleece, or Gore-tex, or a GPS, or the Internet. And I can't even imagine how heavy those boots and skis and packs must have been. Impressive. And humbling.