Do you know what happened in the mountains this week? Here’s a selection of backcountry news, articles, posts, videos, photos, and other cool things that we think you’d like to know about. Enjoy!
Let’s take a look at this week’s mountain news:
- The Best Fathers Day Gifts For Hikers – MountainJourney.com – Fathers Day is next Sunday. Do you have a gift for your dad yet?
- Honnold And Caldwell Climb The Nose On El Cap In Under 2 Hours! – MountainJourney.com – After a week of Honnold and Caldwell news, these superheroes crushed the Nose in under 2 hours. Unbelievable.
- Vail Resorts To Acquire Okemo Mountain, Mount Sunapee, Crested Butte, and Stevens Pass – MountainJourney.com – Vail’s buying spree continues.
- The North Face Joins the Used Gear Movement – – One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.
- Aiguille du Midi closes the Mont Blanc cableway for extraordinary maintenance – PlanetMountain.com – Heads up if your heading to Cham.
- Yellowstone National Park Superintendent: ‘I’m No Longer Wanted’ – NPR.org – Looks like YNP Superintendent Dan Went is being forced out of his job.
- Andes Snowstorm Photo Album From May 30, 2018 – Powderquest.com – It’s already snowing down south. Just saying.
- Thirteen Days on Shkhara: A New Route and First Winter Ascent From the South – AmericanAlpineClub.org – Cool new route on Georgia’s highest mountain.
- Woman Climber Falls 1,000-Feet to her Death in Mont Blanc Massif | Guide Also Falls but Survives – SnowBrains.com – Tragic news from Mont Blanc.
- Sixty Year Old Italian Ski Mountaineer Edmond Joyeusaz Skis the Matterhorn – SnowBrains.com – Super cool. Hope we’re this cool at age 60.
- World’s Largest Indoor Ski Area Planned for Norway – SnowBrains.com – This looks very cool.
- Whistler Blackcomb Donates $20,000 Via Backcountry Ticket Proceeds – SpearheadHuts.org – Who’s stoked for the Spearhead Huts Project? We are!
- The Latest: Guatemala says 109 confirmed dead from volcano – TampaBay.com – Tragic volcanic eruption in Guatemala.
- Four found safe after cold night in Mount Baker wilderness – TheOlympian.com – These Boy Scouts were lucky.
Did we miss any backcountry news? Tell us in the comments below. Have an awesome week!
