Field notes

Trip stories, mountain know-how, and the occasional love letter to a canyon.

Mount Baker · May 2026 A Love Letter to Mount Baker Shea McCrary

Trip stories · February 2026 A Love Letter to the Paria Sunny Stroeer

AWE news · December 2025 In Motion Together

Women in the mountains · November 2025 What Does a Mountaineer Look Like? Sunny Stroeer

Women in the mountains · July 2025 8,848 meters (29,029 ft): Jeannette McGill Touches The Top Of The World Sunny Stroeer

AWE news · June 2025 WHOA, this is AWE-some! Sunny Stroeer

Skills and training · April 2025 What Is an Alpine Start in Mountaineering Sunny Stroeer

Skills and training · November 2024 Managing the Cold: Lessons Learned from a Reluctant Layer-Shedder Sunny Stroeer

Skills and training · April 2024 Extreme High Altitude, Fitness, and Acclimatization Sunny Stroeer

Mount Baker · September 2021 Mount Baker Learnings: “If I can dream it, I can achieve it.”

Trip stories · September 2021 Excitement, Curiosity and Confidence: Reflections from Mt. Shasta

Mount Baker · September 2021 A Mountain of Gratitude: Lessons from a Climb on Kulshan

Mount Baker · June 2021 Climbing Komo Kulshan Sunny Stroeer

Trip stories · June 2021 “I know my own limits – and they are far beyond what everyone expects of me…” Sunny Stroeer

Women in the mountains · June 2021 Imposter Syndrome: Here’s how we’re creating it. Sunny Stroeer AWE news · January 2021 2021: A Year of Women’s Adventures – and Climbing Scholarships Sunny Stroeer

Skills and training · December 2019 How hard is it really to climb Kilimanjaro? Sunny Stroeer

Aconcagua · November 2019 The True Cost of Climbing Aconcagua (Updated for 2026/27) Sunny Stroeer