I was listening to Climbing Gold recently, Alex Honnold was talking about his foray into mountaineering and what he saw as a big problem in commercial guiding and mountaineering. That people with no experience and skills are climbing Everest, and guides are taking them because they can pay. Everest is high stakes even when you have experience, things can go sideways quickly, throw in a bunch of inexperienced individuals and you are practically asking for something to happen a

Our last major road trip for 2025 took us to the dog-friendly Sleeping Bear Dunes National It's hard to capture how steep the dunes are in pictures Lakeshore. Located in the northwestern part of the lower peninsula in Michigan, famous for its 450-foot dunes towering above beautiful Lake Michigan. We planned and booked this trip for the first week of October way back at the beginning of the summer, as luck would have it our trip fell during the government shutdown and we debat