SUMMER 2007 FEATURED TRIP:

Family Adventures - Trips With Kids

Cole Cameron Alexander joined the Skyline Adventure team on January 25, 2006. At four months old, Cole had already begun to strike out to the hills for a taste of adventure (supervised of course). The trips were such fun that the idea came about to run “Trekking for Families” in the 2007 season.

If you know any one who is looking for some family fun, this might just be the thing for them. The trip will be 10 days, airport to airport with a 4 day trek in the mountains surrounding Huaraz. Participants must be at least 912.5 days old, or 30 months, or 2.5 years (whichever comes first) and accompanied by an adult. Each child will have his or her very own donkey or llama to ride if needed during the trek. In evenings there will be activities to keep everyone happy and engaged - A great time for parents to connect with other like-minded parents and kids. For more information, visit our website or send us an email.

SKYLINE NEWS:

Speaking of our website, after many months of hard work we are proud to present our new site as well as our new location on the web, www.skyline-adventures.com. It is our hope that you find this site easy to navigate with a lot of helpful trip-planning information and many more photos to get you inspired! Look around; you might find a picture of yourself somewhere! Feel free to let us know what you think of the new site or if you have a smashing photo of yourself that you would like present to the world, email it in.

Also, now for your added convenience we have a phone number in Missoula, Montana ( USA): (406) 322-3065. Please feel free to give us a call with any and all questions.

CLIENT NEWS:

We wish our two-time alumni; Omar Samra good luck as he makes his bid as the first Egyptian to climb Mt. Everest! Omar began his climbing ambitions by taking a mountaineering course with us in 2002. He returned later to climb Yanapaqcha and Chopicalqui with us in 2005. You can wish Omar good luck by visiting his website at: www.omarsamra.com/everest

We congratulate two-time client Mike Horgan on his recent marriage and great honeymoon adventures in the mountains and wine-tasting establishments of New Zealand.

OFF-SEASON ADVENTURES OF SKYLINE GUIDES:

It often is quite hard to keep up with some of these folks as they bounce around the globe in search of their own challenges and fun. Still, we managed to track down Tyler Anderson and asked him for a brief update:

"I left Huaraz after doing some great exploring around the Cordillera Blanca to spend a month in Ecuador .  I
climbed near Cuenca and Quito , mostly rock but also did a few peaks including Illiniza, Sur and Norte.  Then
I headed up to Colombia for some more rock climbing, mostly in Suesca, northof Bogota .  Some great climbing!!! 
Then 2.5 weeks in el Cocuy National Park in the north of Colombia near Venezuela – a pristine area with a snowy
range of mountains and many beautiful rock walls.  My partner and I climbed two very long established routes and
then put up a new one on the 500-meter virgin east face of ‘Pan De Azucar’. This took us 5 days in total and was
absolutely amazing!”  

Go Tyler ! Thanks for the update.

2006 APPRECIATIONS:

Before 2007 gets too far underway, we would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to those of you that helped make our 2006 season a great success:

• Tiffany Bowie – Alpamayo
• Buz Groshong – Yanapaqcha, Pisco
• Brandon McIntyre – Mountaineering course, Pisco, (strong effort on Yanapaqcha)
• Mike Horgan – Huarapasca, Yanapaqcha (plus a good effort on Alpamayo – turned back by vicious weather)
• Conor Walen - Yanapaqcha (and a good effort on Shaqsha)
• Chris Quirarte - Yanapaqcha (and a good effort on Shaqsha)
• Kris Grummen – Mountaineering Course, Yanapaqcha
• Ronan Leyden - Mountaineering Course, Yanapaqcha
• Stephen Weinberger – Mountaineering course with a solid effort on Yanapaqcha
• Marc Ruesh – Mountaineering course and Yanapaqcha (Huarapasca on his own)
• Sam Rosenberg – Ishinca and a great snowy effort on Tocclaraju
• Will Sargent – Good effort on Vallunaraju
• Carter and Jason Sancort – Ishinca, Tocclaraju, Chopicalqui,
• Maggie Fischer - Ishinca, Tocclaraju, Chopicalqui
• Justin Harriot – Mountaineering Course, Yanapaqcha
• Jared Werner – Mountaineering Course, Yanapaqcha
• Kurt Nykaza – Mountaineering Course, (good effort on Yanapaqcha)
• Steve Boucher – Huarapasca, Artisonraju
• Bob Hunnington – Ishinca, Tocclaraju
• Frank Rumis– Ishinca, Tocclaraju
• Ivan Kirsthon – Huarapasca, Artisonraju
• John Lockwood – Mountaineering Course, Yanapaqcha

IN CLOSING...

As summer draws nearer stay tuned for up-to-date information on climbing & trekking conditions and exciting trip openings in the Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Huayhuash. In closing, we wish all of you a safe and exciting 2007 and our very best wishes for wherever the wind may be taking you next!

Your friends at Skyline Adventures