“Any time I ski a steep line, I’ve done it hundreds of times, and still every time for me there is that moment of fear on top, where I am like, ‘Do I really want to do this?’,” says Jason Hummel. “But, also, anytime you do anything scary, it really ties you down to the moment, the instant, to that second, and all that matters is the next turn.” That feeling of complete presence when you drop into a committing line for the first time has driven Jason’s life. It’s guided decisions about his career, about the structure of his life, and, for the past three decades, it has pulled him up all of the major peaks of the Pacific Northwest, and many of the more obscure, remote and committing mountains of the Cascades and Olympics. But, just as Jason had started to feel like he knew what his home mountains had to offer, he stumbled into this idea that made him reconsider how much he still had to explore.
Today, producer Matt Martin brings you, “The Glacier Project,” the story of Jason’s journey to ski all of the glaciers in Washington, and how placing a constraint on adventure can deepen the relationship with the places we consider most familiar.
Read more about Jason’s Glacier glacier project and check out his photographs at myadventurecrusade.com
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Manly Nunn Steps Out by Doctor Turtle • Oxygen Mask by Andy G. Cohen • Blowback Blues by Canyon Kids • Roswell by Fog Lake Tracks provided by Free Music Archive or with direct permission from the artists.
This is awesome. I was recently in Bellingham browsing through gear at Backcountry Essentials and saw “Alpine State Of Mind” sitting on a book shelf. I opened it up and started browsing at the fantastic photography that Jason Hummel had produced. The guy working there started telling us about Jason and his Glacier Project. It is pretty awesome to hear about his project in more detail. Thanks for this great episode!!
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