Sunday Photo
Sunday Photo – Ben Goes into a Crevasse
Part of the reason I like this photo so much is that it had a happy ending, but it could easily have gone the other way. This incident took place during a 2007 trip up to the Wrangell-St.Elias Mountains with Ben Ditto and Grant Guise. We knew there were crevasses on the glaciers, but once […]
Sunday Photo – Orient Express, Denali
This is one of those cases where the actual skiing was crap, but the location was so amazing it didn’t matter. Doug Byerly skiing the Orient Express on Denali (Mt. McKinley) around 10:30 at night. 1995 Having never skied above 11,000′, Mark Holbrook and I decided it would be a good idea to try skiing […]
Sunday Photo – Deepest Snow I’ve Ever Skied
When skiing around with a new group of friends on an extra deep powder day, the topic always turns to “What’s the deepest snow you have ever skied?” For me, it was an outing to the Ruby Mountains in Nevada with Mark Holbrook the late 1990’s. Following a tip that there was an incredible unskied […]
Sunday Photo – Tasman Glacier Icefall, New Zealand
This classic photo by Chris Figenshau has a funny background to it. Steve Romeo, Chris Figenshau and I flew down to New Zealand to do some skiing in the Mt. Cook National Park with Kiwi local, Grant Guise. We were flown into the Tasman Saddle hut and as we were shuttling our gear to the […]
Sunday Photo – Baffin Island Iceberg Camp
Editors Note: Sundays are meant for skiing, climbing, riding and almost anything but sitting in front of a computer. Still, the Internet never sleeps and Sunday’s are a good time for ski mountaineering photos and the story behind them. Baffin Island Iceberg Camp – 2002 While watching a Mike Libecki slideshow on Big Wall climbing […]
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