Hiking, Climbing and Backpacking

From the mid-seventies until the late nineties I was an avid mountain backpacker. For some reason, after the turn of the millennium I had mostly stopped hiking. In 2007 I started going to the mountains again, and now it is as much a matter of survival for me as it is recreation. In early 2008 I began, at age 45, winter mountaineering for the first time.