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Wasatch Tweet #3
Tricky skiing today – lower elevations are still not filled in and it was hard to get up much speed on low angle terrain in the deep, heavy snow, but if you went steeper, there was a good chance of triggering an ugly avalanche. It should get better in a day or so.
OutDry Testimonial
Growing up skiing at Alpental in the Pacific Northwest, I have one word for any garment aside from rubber which claims to be waterproof – bullshit. (okay, maybe that is a hyphenated compound word, but still…). I was an early adopter to the GoreTex kool-aid and spent many soggy hours denying that I was wet […]
Wasatch BC Tweet
Getting hard to find the goods in the ‘satch. The upper elevations are filled in, but full of blown out crusty snow. The more sheltered mid elevations have good snow, but not much coverage. The fun zone is currently very slim.
“Deeper” Movie Review
Without a doubt, one of the best ski movies of the year is “Deeper” from Jeremy Jones and TGR. True, it doesn’t have any skiing in it, but that’s beside the point – the mountaineering and the message transcend the turns, whether they are on one board or two. I am notoriously bad at forecasting […]
Bellingham Presentation on Skiing the “Alaska Family” – Sept 30
If you happen to be in Bellingham, WA on Thursday, Sept 30th, I will be giving a presentation on skiing all three of the “Alaska Family” peaks, which entail Denali, Sultana (Foraker) and Mt. Hunter. This took place over a period of fourteen years and four separate trips and had a mix of incredibly good […]
Pink Pine Ski Tour – Topo & Guide
At a recent seminar, a speaker from “Backpacker Magazine” described his reader base as “geo reference oriented” which I think was a nice way of saying “geeks with GPS’s.” As I am guilty of the same sin, I wanted to see about putting some classic Wasatch tours on-line and see how it works. The tour […]
Win A Week at CMH via Greg Hill
A few years ago I had the dream trip of a lifetime – a week with my wife at the Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) Caribou Lodge, which had been described as possibly the best skiing on earth. In a case of destiny, it was the rainest week in the ENTIRE history of CMH and they […]
Fly Chuting?
Andrew is back from Antarctica and on firm land. He had a great trip and will report back when he gets back. Now he is off fly fishing. He is going to try spotting again so check back for updates. Polly
Antarctica
Andrew is having a blast down there but alas the spot doesn’t work at the bottom of the earth. You can see where his boat is by looking at http://vtrack.gmn-usa.com/cgi-bin/fleet_setup.pl?fleet=iaato&password=ushuaia – they are on the yellow dot “cpa” aka the Clipper Adventurer. Sounds like the trip is going great (much better than last year!) with […]
Thunder Skin
Another favorite image from my two day scanathon, which is now thankfully complete. From where I now sit I will scan no more forever.
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