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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Powder, Couloirs and the Heaven’s Gate Exit Couloir
Bandwidth is slowing to a crawl here, but it was another fantastic day in the Wrangell-St. Elias range..
Solidarity Peak
Yet another great day in the Wrangell-St.Elias Mountains, this time with a climb and ski descent of Solidarity Peak in perfect conditions.
And Another..!
The Wild Alpine Wilderness Ski Week just keeps rolling with one of the longest stretches of good weather and great skiing that I can recall.
Incredible Skiing!
Today in particular, and the last four days in general, have more than made up for the entire season in the Wasatch. The Wrangell-St.Elias range not only has a fantastic snowpack, but is currently enjoying fantastic stability.
Utah Gets Some
Never mind that last post. As part of an on-going winter of the weirdest weather I have ever seen, on Saturday we skied dirt in the rain, then on Sunday it turned to bottomless puking snow. The snow totals for this season must look like a person (or a planet) going into cardiac arrest – […]
End of Winter 2012?!
It’s 50 degrees and raining in Summit Park. Alta reportedly lost 3′ of snow over the last week. My front yard is bare and the flower buds are starting to poke up (nothing a ski boot can’t fix). At this time last season we had at least a 5′ base, and growing. Snow is forecast […]
Rob Bishop Comes To Park City – Weds 3/14 7:00pm
Rob Bishop, the Summit County Republican Congressman who underwrote the SkiLink bill and introduced it, will be making an appearance on Wednesday evening at Wasatch Bagel – 1300 Snow Creek Drive in Park City. This is your chance to see Rob up close and express your opinion on SkiLink (signs would be helpful), which may […]
PCMR Sues Talisker
Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) has filed a lawsuit against Talisker, who happens to be their neighbor, competitor and landlord. The crux of the lawsuit is that Talisker recently bought up all the land underneath the Park City ski resort and while PCMR thought their lease was good until 2051, Talisker says that it expired […]
Remembering Steve Romeo
Well damn. Sad news today from Jackson Hole today that Steve Romeo and Chris Onufer were buried and died in an avalanche somewhere in the Grand Teton National Park. I didn’t know Chris, but had spent quite a bit of time with Steve and my thoughts go out to both their families and friends. I […]
SkiLink’s Footprint
Last Thursday I had a chance to head up to Big Cottonwood Canyon and tour through the proposed Talisker SkiLink route. The actual details of this Wasatch abomination have been kept quite, or at least from public view, but by locating the beginning and end points, I was able to generate GPS waypoints of where […]
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