Sometimes the weather wallahs work in your favor, even in the Alaska Range. Two of us went last week to the Mooses Tooth in Denali NP for 10 planned days to climb two Alaskan classic, long ice, snow, rock couloirs. We were able to do both in 5 days, with 2 days rest in between. This was easily the best (and most difficult) climbing that I've ever done. My thanks to Clint Cook who is owner and head guide for the San Juan Mountain Guides here in Ouray, Colorado. He and his colleagues have been working on my climbing for 4 years now. The mountainscape is beyond words and even the accompanying photos. Alaska is a magic, rugged, frontier-like destination. The "Ice Axe" beer is strong and the people pretty laid back. The flying in/out of Talkeetna is no small part of the adventure. We'll go there again! It's always good to be home, but we also leave something behind on these ventures that makes us go back to find it again.