ALEXANDER MITCHKO

The most climbed mountain in the United States, by some metric—not sure which one—has this way of bringing serious mountaineers and kooks all to the same parking lot. A classic Hood parking lot hang After a small trip hiccup in Sisters, OR, I was on my way up to Hood for another solo mission before meeting up with the spring Alaska team on Rainier. Arriving in the afternoon, I was met with the splendor of Oregon sunshine, ample parking, and the tangible stoke of ski bums ridi

Desolation Wilderness, or Deso as the locals call it, is where my first backcountry experience in Tahoe took place. Arriving in Lake...