Mailbox is my usual training climb. I have not been up it in months, however, due to work. I was stunned to realize that a trough of high pressure air was likely to protect the mid-Cascade range from precipitation on Friday… when my son was on spring break. We had a chance to get up there and give him some practice using the axe and crampons on the snowfields. In preparation, Matthew devoured the relevant chapters in Freedom of the Hills, our mountaineering bible. Like the real bible, this one is full of hocum… and some nuggets of wisdom too.
I did not sleep the night before due to work, but the weather models remained favorable, and we stuck with our plan to climb Mailbox. And so we did.
posted: April 8, 2018
6 thoughts on “Mailbox with Matthew”
Looks like a gorgeous climb! Have to ask; what did Matthew contribute to the Box?
Looks like a gorgeous climb! Have to ask; what did Matthew contribute to the Box?
No deposits this trip, but he took some trash off the mountain.
Oh, he looks so much like the college age Psquared. Mini-me much?
LOVE this! We call him Small Paul. And… 4 years until college.
Great vid. What did the temp drop to? Great looking young man. Great climb.
Hey thank you. This was not too cold, actually warm in the sun! Plenty of snow but above freezing air temps for sure.