MOUNTAIN KHAKIS - Built For The Mountain Life Blog

MK dealer owner serves as guest speaker

At Battle Mountain High School in Vail, CO, Raymond A. Bleesz will address students as a guest speaker touching on European History, WW11 specific & centered on the Alsacian Inferno, a Konzentraitionslager, a concentration camp, the only one of its kind in France, and a camp where a Bleesz family member, Xavier Bleesz was interned & executed for being a French Resistance member.

    

 

 

 

Raymond is the owner of a great MK dealer, Brush Creek.  Congrats on the opportunity to educate others on something near and dear to your heart.   

A day of climbing with Dickinson College and MK

Drew Kroft, of Dickinson College, shares about the climbing competition MK was a part of recently. 

A few weeks ago we, the small but intense group of climbers at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), had our annual bouldering competition.  Three of the older climbers, spent 14 pizza-fueled hours at the campus rock wall setting 42 excellent boulder problems.  The point values topped out at 400, the grades around V5/6, in the form of a high and forbidding arête problem with some big moves on baby-smooth slopers.

 

 

The competition was scheduled to start at noon, so naturally everyone showed up at the gym around 12:15, after which we explained the rules, which were basically: climb for as long as possible, (around three hours, as it turned out) and then add up the top six sends.  The climbers were split up into categories – guys and girls, and beginner and intermediate.  We got an unusually large turnout, including a professor and a pair of small children.  The kids didn’t compete, but they climbed hard and were duly rewarded with pizza.

 

The competition was friendly, yet fierce.  After giving the results, we had a raffle for the prizes, which included, among other things, two free pairs of Mountain Khakis, which, naturally, disappeared pretty quickly.  All in all, we considered the competition nothing less than a huge success.

 

Glad MK could be a part of this event!

 

*photos by Adrian Kostrubiak

MK sponsors Summit Up and Alzheimer’s

Mountain Khakis recently partnered with Mark Zimmer to help him reach his personal goal and to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s.  See his introduction below and keep an eye out for the posts to come of his journey.

My name is Mark Zimmer and I am a 23 year old from Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Starting this month, I am going to begin climbing the highest peak in each of the 50 states to raise money for Alzheimer’s research.  To raise this money, I am both collecting personal donations and flying flags for my sponsors on each of the 50 peaks.  I plan to average one peak per month and serve a useful purpose of raising awareness for Alzheimer’s.

 

 

Good luck Mark!

How Do You MK? - Julie

 

Julie, a MK employee, shows off the women's Lake Lodge short in Grand Cayman!

How Do You MK? - Brian Dean

MK Ambassador, Brain Dean, shares his son’s first hike in the mountains of western NC. 

 PS: For those loyal readers of the MK blog that are members of the Wilderness Medical Association, Brian has an article published in the most recent issue of the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine about the management of dislocated ankle fractures in the wild.