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Antarctica November 2013 Update

Antarctica November 2013 Update

| June 7, 2013 | 2 Comments

Although the 2013/14 Wasatch snowfall totals were a bit of a bust, I’m already looking forward to my next anticipated skiing outing in Ushuaia, Argentina before heading down to Antarctica for ten days of skiing in November with the 2013 Antarctic Ski Cruise. This is one of my favorite trips of the year (or actually […]

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Last Night Race and a First SkiLink Open Forum Discussion

| February 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

Tonight, Tuesday Feb 26th at 7:00pm, is the last night of the season to get yer suffer on at Brighton as part of the Wasatch Citizen Series ski mountaineering races. These events have been a great source of low pressure fun and even in the worst conditions 40-50 people have been showing up for them. […]

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Black Diamond Redux

Black Diamond Redux

| February 15, 2013 | 16 Comments

After a seven year hiatus, I am back working with Black Diamond Equipment in Salt Lake City. But, unlike 1991 when I started there as a gear designer, this time I’m involved as a ski mountaineer, which in itself shows how far the company and industry has come. Twenty-two years ago the idea of being […]

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Unique Avalanche Class Next Week

Unique Avalanche Class Next Week

| January 4, 2013 | 0 Comments

The Utah Avalanche Center, Black Diamond and Snowbird are hosting the “2013 Snowbird Freeride Avalanche Summit” this upcoming Monday and Tuesday (Jan 6-7) with a short evening session/registration Sunday evening.  The emphasis is on steep skiing, filming, sidecountry and working with resort resources. I signed up for this course for a number of reasons.  First, […]

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Toll Canyon Open Land Purchase

Toll Canyon Open Land Purchase

| December 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

If you live in the Park City or Synderville Basin area of Summit County, Utah, there is an exciting opportunity to purchase one of the last few undeveloped canyons in the area.  Toll Canyon shares boundry edges with three housing developments, Summit Park, Timberline and Pinebrook, as well as topping out on, or near the […]

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AK Factor Guidebook

AK Factor Guidebook

| November 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

After many years of research, Joe Stock of Anchorage, AK has recently published a new guidebook titled “The Alaska Factor – Backcountry Skiing in Southcentral Alaska.” It’s a full-color beauty and well worth adding to your guidebook collection. The Alaska Factor mainly focuses on areas that are day or weekend trips from the Anchorage area, […]

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Antarctica 2013

Antarctica 2013

| November 20, 2012 | 7 Comments

At this time next year, you could be finishing up a great day of skiing, checking out the latest weather forecast and getting ready to cross the Drake Passage after a week of wild skiing in Antarctica. The now famous IceAxe Antarctica Ski Cruise only happens once every two years, and in 2013 it will […]

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Utah Snow & Avalanche Workshop – Nov 3rd

Utah Snow & Avalanche Workshop – Nov 3rd

| October 31, 2012 | 10 Comments

The Utah Avalanche Center is hosting its 4th annual snow & avalanche workshop this upcoming weekend and given how dicey last year was, there should be some good fodder for discussion. The workshop starts with a brief description of what made the conditions so dangerous and then goes into individual accident scenarios including the infamous […]

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AK Fundraiser Shows Oct 25th & 26th

AK Fundraiser Shows Oct 25th & 26th

| October 23, 2012 | 2 Comments

I’ll be up in Alaska this week giving two shows for local avalanche forecast fundraising events.  The first is this Thursday, Oct 25th at the Bear Tooth Theatrepub and will be a presentation on four trips up to the Wrangell-St.Elias range in SE Alaska.

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Back From the Land of White Death

Back From the Land of White Death

| October 15, 2012 | 4 Comments

I like soft, white landscapes, but not when it comes to blank screens on websites.  For the past few weeks StraightChuter.com has been the victim of a self-inflicted wound to its central operating system which resulted in the dreaded “White Screen of Death.” I now know more about this symptom than I ever wanted to […]

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