Andrew McLean
Andrew McLean lives in Park City, Utah and is a gear designer, writer, photographer, ski mountaineer, climber, Mountain Unicycle rider and father of two very loud little girls.
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MHW Tent Winner & Answers
Winning location: The Bering Glacier Scientific Camp on the southeast shore of Lake Vitus, Alaska. Ron Enns from Squamish, BC is the winner and nfrancois gets a runner-up prize! Nice job guys! Ron is debating between a Spire 2.1 or an EV-2 tent. Here’s how he found it: I thought back to your New Zealand contest and tried to […]
MOUNTAIN HARDWEAR SUPER CLUESDAY! Win a tent NOW!
Our epic journey begins on top of the peak identified in clue #4… Gasp…gasp, shiver….shiver… let’s get going. It is freezing cold, high and hard to breathe up here. We’ve been climbing all night and are now going to turn around and follow our boot tracks back down, repeating the line of the first ski […]
How to Win the MHW Tent Tomorrow…
Yes, tomorrow, Feb 17th at 10:00am Utah time is Super Cluesday, which means the final clue will be given right here for a chance to win a Mountain Hardwear tent of your choice! I will away in Ouray, Colorado, but hopefully things will go well. If not, be patient. Video of two Mountain Hardwear […]
The Big Four-Oh
Having hit 40,000′ of climbing and skiing at the 24 Hours of Sunlight, I’d like to say I can now rest easy, except I’m still in too much pain. Someday, hopefully soon, I’ll rest easy, but the best I can do until then is just to be very psyched. The first year I did the […]
Trip to NYC
If there is such a thing as a silver lining to surviving multiple avalanches, it is that I am now considered an “Avalanche Expert” and as such will be talking on Good Morning America Now on Wednesday with Marit Fischer from Backcountry.com. I wonder if hunters who consistently shoot themselves in the foot are considered “Hunting […]
Chuting Spree Clue #4 – Mountain Hardwear Tent
Follow the rules and five weekly clues, then be the first to correctly identify where the tent is hidden to win a Mountain Hardwear tent of your choice! Clue #4: This MOUTAIN is located in the zone identified in clue #3 and has a skiing history which involves two fatal falls, a free-heel first descent and what might […]
The Unbearable Lightness of Greg Hill
A month ago I received a suspicious looking unmarked package in the mail from Canada. On one hand it was too small to hold a bomb, but it could have easily been filled with Anthrax spores, so I opened it with extreme caution. To my dismay, a quick death by Anthrax would have been a […]
24 Hours of Pain… coming up.
It’s been four years since I partook in the inaugural 24 Hours of Sunlight race in 2005, which is just long enough to forget the painful memories and do it again. Through bad luck, I had a schedule change that fell through this weekend (I was going to give the dog a bath) which meant I had no […]
Skinning in the Sandbox
While skinning up Argenta today I was reminded of the term “skinning in a sandbox.” About the only silver lining on this condition is the apt and funny mental imagery of actually skinning uphill in a sandbox, but aside from that, it is a very frustrating experience. What makes it so annoying is that it […]
Four Year Ago Today…
… we got married up at Alta by the Honorable Reverend Lou Dawson (First Church of WildSnow). Now, four years later, we have a little 1.5 year-old red headed skier girl and another on the way. It’s been a blast – thanks Polly!
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