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This year, ski mountaineering makes its way into the Olympics as an event for the first time. That’s enough to make me t...
02/14/2026

This year, ski mountaineering makes its way into the Olympics as an event for the first time. That’s enough to make me turn the TV on for a change—and to remind me of past trips.

Twenty-five years ago, a few of us skied 40 miles over six days from west to east across the highest alpine wilderness of California’s Sierra Nevada.

Free-heel skiing, telemark skiing, backcountry skiing, wilderness skiing, ski mountaineering—interchangeable terms that all describe some aspect of the same activity: going into the mountains self-contained, self-propelled, and self-reliant; navigating by map and compass; sleeping, eating, and traveling on snow. It’s one of the great loves of my life.

As Alps-centric as I am these days, the mountains of the western U.S. can’t be beat for huge, still-untainted tracts of wilderness, with zero people—especially under the winter/spring snowpack.

The Olympic ski-mo event will be fun to watch, but it will be a competitive spectacle writ large—very different from the way my fellow free-heelers and I practice it. You won’t get a sense of the distances, the solitude, the quiet, the epic, nature-ific scale of it all.

Back to that quarter-century-ago ski tour:

I shot this photo of my friend Doug Robinson during a lunch break a few days into the trip at 12,000 ft (3,700 meters); my skis with 3-pin bindings (I also used leather boots) are in the foreground. After eating, we took a few fun turns and then hoisted our packs onto our backs again to continue the long easterly traverse across the granite spine of the Sierra.

I carried a 1950s press camera with me that shoots 4×5 film. I took this photo with that camera, using beautifully fine-grained Panatomic-X film made by Kodak. With all that large-format muscle, it’s comical that you’re looking at it on a phone screen. The film, however, was quite expired: Kodak stopped manufacturing it in 1987, and I shot this in 2001. The high-altitude sun also managed to light-leak its way into my film holder, as you can see.

photo © Jim Herrington

Tonight.
02/12/2026

Tonight.

My book ‘The Climbers’ is now in its 3rd language.The Korean edition is out now.
01/26/2026

My book ‘The Climbers’ is now in its 3rd language.

The Korean edition is out now.





Prints as gifts:For US customers, Friday is the last day to order prints and still receive them by Christmas (preferably...
12/17/2025

Prints as gifts:
For US customers, Friday is the last day to order prints and still receive them by Christmas (preferably Friday morning so I can ship them that day).

All domestic orders placed AFTER Friday cannot be guaranteed to arrive by Christmas but will still be filled as they come in... 🌞

To see the prints available, go here: https://jimherrington.bigcartel.com
https://linktr.ee/jimherrington

Thanks to those who've already ordered... they're all in transit!

Dolly Parton - The Four Print Suite, at a special Christmas price.If you’ve been holding out on getting a Dolly for your...
11/28/2025

Dolly Parton - The Four Print Suite, at a special Christmas price.
If you’ve been holding out on getting a Dolly for yourself or someone else, here are my four best-selling Dolly prints together in one package, click here:

https://jimherrington.bigcartel.com/product/dolly-parton-four-print-suite

Of course if you prefer you can buy individual Dolly prints, as well as prints of Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Townes Van Zandt, Charlie Rich, Tom Petty, Cormac McCarthy, Merle Haggard, Gillian Welch, Morgan Freeman, Joe Strummer, Jerry Lee Lewis... the list is long — take a look around on that same link.

https://jimherrington.bigcartel.com/products

Photos © Jim Herrington

Treviso — Friday, October 3 at 6:30pm:Choya doesn’t get a co-write credit on my book however she did give me months of m...
09/28/2025

Treviso — Friday, October 3 at 6:30pm:

Choya doesn’t get a co-write credit on my book however she did give me months of moral support while I wrote the words for ’The Climbers’ on a ranch in the Owens Valley just underneath the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.

This coming Friday in Treviso I’ll do a slideshow and talk about my 20-year, around-the-world effort to make 'The Climbers' book, as well as other facets of my photographic life including my 40 years of music portraiture.

More about me and my work can be found by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/jimherrington

Venerdì 3 Ottobre
ore 18:30
Auditorium Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Via Cornarotta 7/9
Treviso

Event details: https://www.theclimbersbook.com/events/2025/10/3/fondazione-benetton-studi-ricerchenbsp-treviso-italia

The presentation is organized by the Giuseppe Mazzotti Foundation for Venetian Civilization
with support from the
Treviso chapter of Club Alpino Italiano, CAI.

La presentazione è organizzata dalla Fondazione Giuseppe Mazzotti per la Civiltà Veneta con il supporto della sezione trevigiana del Club Alpino Italiano, CAI.

'The Climbers' by Jim Herrington is published in Italy by Grafiche Antiga and Pen*sola Edizioni

RIP Louisiana swamp pop musical legend Tommy McLain, dead at 85. A lovely man with a big heart and a soul full of music....
07/25/2025

RIP Louisiana swamp pop musical legend Tommy McLain, dead at 85.
A lovely man with a big heart and a soul full of music.
I was fortunate enough to spend some days with him in the boonies outside of Lafayette, Louisiana several years ago.

This might be his best one, from 1966, listen:
https://youtu.be/cN3jk5cxo1s

Buon viaggio maestro. ❤️

photo: Jim Herrington 2022

I’m accepting birthday hugs and kisses tonight Wed. July 16 at:Martha My Dear2503 Gallatin Ave.East Nashville7pm-ish unt...
07/16/2025

I’m accepting birthday hugs and kisses tonight Wed. July 16 at:

Martha My Dear
2503 Gallatin Ave.
East Nashville

7pm-ish until late and/or until all hugs and kisses are accounted for.

😘

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