"And just like that... Winter opened cold bleary eyes to the newborn colors of spring.” – Angie Weiland-Crosby NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: As I...

Quote: "Learn to love what you’ve been taught to fear.” – Felix Baumgartner NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: I’ve been lucky enough to have room to...

Quote: "Hold fast to dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: It...

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Daffies are blooming in my yard (without any help from me, thank God…) and with the sun shining and the wood ducks...

Climber: "I could see everywhere there was a penalty for too much comfort.” – Fred Beckey NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: If you can’t recruit...

Climber: "The temptation to quit will be strongest just before you are about to succeed.” – Bob Parsons NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Sorry for...

John Muir: "In every walk in nature, one receives more than he seeks.” NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: I apologize for the late newsletter. Rather...

Dr. Seuss: "Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so … get on your way!” NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Fall has arrived. The leaves are...

Alex Lowe: "There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.”...

Aldo Leupold: "I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Summer is here, and from what I’ve...

Robert Frost: "Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.” NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:...

Jack Kerouac: "Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn...

John Muir: "Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand...

Sir Edmund Hillary: "It is not the mountains we conquer but only ourselves.” NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: I got a ton of photos this month so...

John Muir: "The mountains are calling, and I must go.” NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Almost two months into the year and I’ve received photos...

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Welcome to 2019! Bet you didn’t know it, but you received another, late and possibly mediocre holiday gift – ME,...

Elections were held at the December 2018 Holiday Potluck. The new Skagit Alpine Club Officers are: President: Andrea Bachman...