Welcome to episode six of the Grey NATO a loose discussion of travel, adventure,

diving, gear, and most certainly watches. I'm James Stacy and I'm Jason Heaton.

And now thankfully it's time to shed the sport coat and get outside.

Today, James and I are going to talk outdoor adventures. We've got an action-packed show lined up for you.

We're going to be talking about gear, some alpine goals, some Q&A is back this week, and we've even got a special

interview that's coming up later in the show.

We're pretty full up, so let's get right underway.

It's April and here the ice is finally off the lakes, James.

I'm sure the sun's out in Vancouver finally. You've got a few weeks of sun, hopefully this summer.

And it's time to get outside. So what have you got lined up for this summer anything?

Yeah so there's still a lot of snow in the alpine for Vancouver so it's just right on that like

teetering edge of when all the stuff in the North Shore opens up.

But there's hiking to be done up in Squamish,

which is a little bit more padded from the snow.

You know, I'm trying to get in as much hiking as possible.

I have a goal.

I'm going to hopefully summit Baker in late June. So Baker's kind of an intermediate

entry level mountaineering mountain in northern Washington. It's 10,800 feet and there's a you know you can you can take a

guided kick up there so I've always read and love mountaineering and this is kind of

the next step is to give it a try on like a very safe scenario so we get to do some glacier travel which I'm really excited about and

theoretically if everything works out hit the peak after a day of hiking in the snow.

Wow and then on top of that, you know, in July we've got kind of the

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