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Accidental Activist Presentation – Friday, 3/8 SLC @ 6:30pm
I’m not sure how it happened, but over the last year or so, mutual friends have been introducing me to others as an “Environmental Activist.” Like most of my various careers, this was accidental and came about as a result of doing something I was/am passionate about, namely helping preserve the Wasatch Mountains. I will […]
Chute Me – Please
Despite my best efforts to keep StraightChuter.com as simple to update and maintain as possible, the evil computers have won again and I’m in the process of updating the format. This was prompted by all of my tabs/pages mysteriously vaporizing into the Ethernet. Like childhood memories, they were nothing really important and perhaps it is […]
World Wide Wasatch update
“Dude, Christmas is way over. Where is the fresh content? Wildsnow is posting freshies every day.” – Cameron I know, I know. It hurts to get out-stoked by WildSnow, but I’m use to it. And, although Colorado may have better bloggers, Utah currently has better snow. Ha! Take that WildSnow World Headquarters, Associate Editors, Junior […]
Jail & Sue-age
It’s a sign of the times when you attend an avalanche workshop and the topics include getting thrown in jail and/or sued for backcountry skiing. Both of these topics, and a few others, were presented at the 2012 Utah Snow & Avalanche Workshop last Saturday. The getting thrown in jail part obliquely had to do […]
More SkiLink Humor
I was checking out the LiftUtah website yesterday to see which new developers, realtors, construction companies, linen services, bankers, lawyers and politicians had been recruited to support this “public transportation system” (hahaha…) and got a great laugh out of the website’s background image. Not only do all of the members of Lift Utah hate the […]
The Grand Revisited
I hadn’t been back to ski on the Grand Teton for about ten years in part because I was still quaking in fear from my last descent on it, which took place on the Hossack/MacGowan route with Hans Saari. Perhaps “respect” is a better word than fear in this case, as after nine skiing trips […]
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.
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 – […]
Wasatch Update
Now that the Wasatch Mountains actually have some snow, it is like celebrating November in February – a bit late, but welcome. Last Saturday we followed a masterful skin track up the Argenta aprons on Mt. Kessler and caught the trail breakers right on the summit, who turned out to be Alecs Barton and two […]
Utah Almost Gets an Angry Inch
In a flurry of unexpected activity, Park City registered one of its biggest snow storms of the season early this morning with snow totals expected to reach .6018″ by the time it is all over. Striking in the early hours of dawn, the storm raged for 23 minutes beginning at 5:21am and tapering off by […]
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