Archive for December, 2010
Infectious Greed – Book Review
Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets by Frank Partnoy Both awesome and overwhelming at the same time and one of the few non-fiction financial books that I got tossed off of and couldn’t finish. Part of the issue with this book is that it is so well documented and detailed that […]
My Most Valuable Piece of Avalanche Safety Gear
Without a doubt, solid partners are the A-#1 best piece of avalanche gear out there. This doesn’t mean partners who can dig you out quickly, but more partners who are less likely to get you or themselves buried in the first place. Good partners come in all sorts of sizes, shapes, sexes, speeds and ability […]
To Probe or Not To Probe
I’ve been called a moron for not carrying a probe, but in truth, I’m only a 3/4 moron as I do carry one occasionally, namely on expeditions or when skiing with a large group of people. I like them for expeditions as they serve many uses – marking caches, anchoring tents, probing for crevasses or […]
Wasatch Tweet #3
Tricky skiing today – lower elevations are still not filled in and it was hard to get up much speed on low angle terrain in the deep, heavy snow, but if you went steeper, there was a good chance of triggering an ugly avalanche. It should get better in a day or so.
Enlightenment – Step 2
Ahhh, I can feel the pounds falling away. Tomorrow is my first day out with my lighter set-up and I can’t wait/weight. As mentioned in the last post, I am keeping my heavier Safety Pack and assembling a light one as well. Things that got the outright chop: Goggles – I use wide sun glasses […]
Enlightenment – Step 1
The process of reducing my total backcountry skiing equipment weight is harder than it seems. First, there are times when I definitely DO want the full-monty of safety gear and creature comforts, but it is hard to say exactly when that is. For instance, during the past few days the avalanche danger in the Wasatch […]
A Frame vs. Diagonal Ski Carry
Few topics get the fur flying among backcountry skiers more than discussing the merits of A-frame vs. diagonal ski carrying modes on backpacks. Blood will be spilled.
OutDry Testimonial
Growing up skiing at Alpental in the Pacific Northwest, I have one word for any garment aside from rubber which claims to be waterproof – bullshit. (okay, maybe that is a hyphenated compound word, but still…). I was an early adopter to the GoreTex kool-aid and spent many soggy hours denying that I was wet […]
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