Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...
The air was bad. Wildfire smoke from the Flat Creek fire had settled across Central Oregon, tinting the Cascades in an eerie dusk-light even though it was only late afternoon. My boyfriend, RJ, and I ...