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Mega Stoveboard Revelation
I’m almost embarrassed to think of how long it took me to realize the significance of using a huge stove board for heavy winter camping, but now that I’ve been enlightened, camping will never be the same. There are many different styles of winter camping and ski mountaineering expeditions, but for those which involve flying [...]
Cooking the Perfect Cheese Bagel Spinner
There are many “last great challenges” in the world of Ski Mountaineering, but how to cook a perfect cheese bagel spinner is now no longer one of them. Just because bagels, cheese and white gas are the three pillars of backcountry camping, doesn’t mean they always get along and many a bagel has been badly [...]
Narrated Couloir Video
I’ve been in a video uploading frenzy lately and put together this 4:30 clip on chute skiing. The couloir itself was a 40-45 degree line which was about 1,800′ tall. After editing the clips together, I went back and narrated over the top of it afterwards. There is obviously far more to skiing couloirs than [...]
2013 Wilderness Ski Week Photo Gallery
2013 was the second annual Wild Alpine Wilderness Ski Week, which is held in conjunction with the Ultima Thule Lodge. Like last year, the weather and conditions were great and we got out every day for some of the best turns of the season, at least in my case. I haven’t gotten around to a [...]
Ruthless Ambitions Photo Gallery
I’ll get around to writing this trip up ASAP, but first… photos. Ruthless Ambitions 2013 This was the second part of my trip to Alaska this year and involved a nine-day outing in the Ruth Amphitheater (thus the “Ruthless Ambitions” trip name) with Garrett Grove, Noah Howell and my old skiing buddy, Mark Holbrook. The [...]
Up, Up & Away to Snowy AK
If I had to pick my favorite place on earth to go skiing, it would have to be Alaska. I know, this is a cheater’s answer as the state is so huge it is like saying “protein” is your favorite food, but that’s the point. In Alaska you can ski anywhere from sea level to [...]
Gear List Blowout
As I was packing up my gear for a two-stage trip to Alaska, I decided to shoot photos of it for future gear lists on StraightChuter. I’ll have to see how long it takes me to get around to the actual list and details, but in the meantime, here’s some/most of what I take on [...]
New Spring Skiing Setup
Not that there is any snow in the Wasatch to actually use them, but I just finished mounting, skinning and tuning my latest ski mountaineering ski set-up today and can’t wait to get out on it. If nothing else, it is a very sexy looking little rig in a 124/80/108 mm kind of way. I [...]
Stocks, Rocks and Crocus Shock
Seeing the front-page news of stocks hitting a new high only reminded me of the miserable performance of my personal tracking index – the Wasatch Snow Depth Fund (NASDAQ – WDSUX) which is tracking towards a record low. As a measure of intense personal displeasure (IDP), the recent heat wave and lack of new snow [...]
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