Recent Blog Posts
In Defense of Guest GuidingDecember 22, 2025 - 9:11 am
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The ReckoningAugust 4, 2020 - 6:03 pm
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Responsible Climbing in the Era of COVID-19May 18, 2020 - 3:57 pm


The Richey Project
/in Blog, Video/by Bayard RussellThe Richey Project from Bayard Russell on Vimeo. Mark Richey is one of the country’s most accomplished Himalayan alpinists, a business owner who grew a basement wood shop into a hugely successful architectural woodworking company and an all around pleasure to spend a day cragging with. Ray Rice, him and I skied out to Western […]
The Ghost
/in Blog/by Bayard RussellThere it is, it just happened.. it rained, it got cold and Cannon went off. If you just keep showing up year after year, eventually, you just might run into the conditions of a lifetime. Maybe. I didn’t show up. Kevin Mahoney and Elliot Gaddy did though; early on a sunny morning after a ridiculous […]
To the Top!
/in Blog, Video/by Bayard RussellKevin Mahoney’s blog is up and running again with a post about a memorable couple of days during a winter season I look back fondly on, 2001-2002. There was nothing to climb anywhere but Cannon, I had just gotten dumped, moved to the MWV and my good friend Josh Hurst and I had been climbing […]