John Sigmon

Overview I am currently laid up from surgery and thought this would be a good time to finish up some posts on earlier adventures. On June 10, 2022 Julie Jung and I set out in the morning to climb Kamp's Ridge on Mt. Olympus to the north summit, traverse to

Overview Julie Jung and I set out on June 14th, 2022 to climb the East Buttress of Mt. Whitney (Grade III, 5.7, 1,000 ft). We planned to do the approach in the morning, the climb the same day, stay the night at Iceberg Lake, and climb Mithril Dihedral

I know a few people headed to the Winds for the first time, and found myself repeating advice and thought it might be better written down and shared. If you're making your first trip to the Cirque of the Towers hopefully you find this helpful. Getting There There are a

Overview On January 16, 2021, Julia Bodiford and I climbed Geurt's Ridge and descended the standard Olympus trail. We stopped short about 40 meters short of the summit due to deep snow and nightfall and descended a gully to the south to reconnect with the main hiking trail. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather

Overview On April 2, 2022, Craig Pierson and I summited Pfiefferhorn via the North Ridge in winter/spring conditions. We skied off the summit with rapidly warming snow, but successfully got back to the car without incident. I felt horrible all day, pretty much from the moment we left. I

Overview Selina Sekulic and I traveled to Washington intending on summiting Adams and Rainier in early May. We found winter like conditions on the volcanoes, and decided to shoot for Adams. This time of year the road to the trailhead for the standard route on Adams is typically unmaintained, and

Overview This post is a compilation of resources that I have found helpful both for myself and to share with others. As I copied and pasted, and searched YouTube for the same links over and over, I thought this might all be better in the same place. These resources are

Overview This writing only covers how to choose and purchase your mountaineering/ice climbing/winter gear when you are starting out. There is so much gear to be acquired, and this post only aims to provide an intro and overview of what the main options are. This includes boots, crampons,

Overview On September 5th I started out from the Lupine Meadows trailhead at 7 AM to summit the Grand by myself. My intention was to climb up the Owen Spalding (OS) route and down climb the route as well, as I did not want to take a rope. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather

Overview Julia Bodiford and I summited Mt. Hood (11,249 ft.) via Old Chute June 24, 2021. It was our first time in the area, and first Cascade volcano. Weather & Conditions It was cold and windy on the way up. Somewhere in the 20s F probably, with a steady 20

Overview Julia Bodiford and I set out to Grand Teton National Park for the first time on 6/8/21 with the intention of attempting the Middle Teton via the Southwest Couloir car to car the following day. As it was our first time to the park, we wanted to

Overview On 5/28/21 Julia Bodiford, a friend, and I began the Escalante Route in the Grand Canyon. We approached the route via Tanner Trail, exiting via the New Hance Trail on 5/30/21. The Escalante Route is considered the most rugged backcountry “trail” in the Grand Canyon

Overview On 5/24/21 Julia Bodiford and myself attempted to summit Pfiefferhorn via the standard route in early spring conditions. Strava recording here [https://www.strava.com/activities/5352528737]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather & Conditions The day was very sunny with a decent westerly wind, with a high in the upper 40s

Intro This writing is about the details of my sufferings with a repetitive strain injury (RSI)[1] that was debilitating for over a year and has affected me daily since early 2018. The emotional stress of having a chronic injury cannot be overstated. It dampens everything like a heavy blanket.

Linting vs Testing Linting is a “static” test in the sense that it doesn’t run or execute any code. It analyzes the file(s) looking for code smells [https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeSmell.html] and what the linter considers poor style. On the other hand, tests actually execute some

I want to share a command line tool I have recently learned. jq provides a fantastic and fast way to manipulate and manage JSON files, especially when they become very large. I want to give a quick overview of how it works and then show some examples. Giving jq input

Basic Git Usage A great reference for basic git usage, including push, pull, merge, and other operations is Travis Swicegood’s “Pragmatic Guide to Git” [https://pragprog.com/book/pg_git/pragmatic-guide-to-git]. Julia Evans also has a wonderful and easy to understand introduction to solving common user errors within git

Overview This post simply provides a grab bag of bash snippets that are unrelated and not enough to write a whole post on. Enjoy! Redirects All those fun redirect operators are outlined really well in this Stack Overflow post [https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159513/what-are-the-shells-control-and-redirection-operators] . Grep, Awk, and Sed

During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 I started compiling a list of (mostly) free climbing, mountaineering, and skiing videos. I created a Google Doc that is available here. I will occasionally sync this page with the Google Doc. If you want to make suggestions, navigate to the document and add