Archive for January, 2010
Pink Pine Ski Tour – Topo & Guide
At a recent seminar, a speaker from “Backpacker Magazine” described his reader base as “geo reference oriented” which I think was a nice way of saying “geeks with GPS’s.” As I am guilty of the same sin, I wanted to see about putting some classic Wasatch tours on-line and see how it works. The tour […]
Scott Markewitz Photo Workshop
I recently attended a seminar at the Winter OR Show entitled “Print is Dead” which had a panel of outdoor writers and e-commerce people, including Steve Casimiro. Steve has been one of my favorite skiing writers since his days at Powder, and the upshot of the seminar was that print isn’t really dying so much […]
Pulling Slope Angles
Trivia: Inclinometers are used in aircraft to show magnetic dip or the angle from the horizon. Clinometers are used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation. Goniometers are instruments that either measures angle or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position. Regardless of what you use […]
Glue Renew Guru
I love the idea of regluing skins, not just because it is all eco earth friendly and vegan approved, but because a pair of moderately worn nylon skins have such a nice feel to them – they glide, climb and fold-up like butter. With this in mind, I stripped the old glue off of a […]
Deep Snow and Shallow Batteries
It’s about time the Wasatch got some snow, dammit. It was a mixed blessing to open my garage door this morning and find that the overnight snowfall was thigh deep and over the top of my snow-thrower hood, which necessitated a double pass, which in turn made me late, which led to getting stuck in […]
OR Show through Sunday
The Outdoor Retailer Show is in Salt Lake City and the Sundance Film Festival is getting underway in Park City, so Utah is hopping at the moment. A bit more snow would make it even better. I’ll add some updates from the OR Show over the next day or so.
Utah Interconnect – SPOT Tracking
Alright, this didn’t work so well last time as I didn’t RTFM (Read The Fuggin Manual),
Dynafit Brake Modification
As a crusading Dynafit Evangelist, I’m loathe to say anything bad about them, but will admit that many times the brakes hang up and don’t deploy. This happens often enough that some of my Dynafit buddies skip the brakes altogether as “they never work anyway.” It seems that this is more common with skis that […]
Video – Skin Ripping
A little video we shot this morning while waiting (and waiting…) for it to finally snow in the Wasatch. This technique is a slo-mo variation on a racing strip and it takes about one and a half minutes. Out of habit, I like to strip my skins right when I get to the top of […]
“Up There” Ski Film Fest – Bozeman, MT
The “Up There” Ski Film Fest is taking place on Jan 14-15 in Bozeman, MT. It is being presented by the Yellowstone Club Community Foundation and benefits my all time favorite ski mountaineering organization, The Hans Sarri Memorial Fund (<– which happens to have a new website, check it out). Not only are they showing […]
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