Trip Reports
Grand Teton – Skiing Topo
It took me three attempt to finally ski the Grand Teton, but it was well worth it. Part of the beauty of skiing this peak is that there is no one particular crux to it, but it is more a sum of all of its parts. There is some great skiing on it (as well […]
Antarctic Peninsula Photo Gallery
TUNE IN AT 10:00am MST TODAY FOR THE CLUESDAY CLUE-OF-THE-WEEK TO WIN A FREE PAIR OF K2 SKIS! In 2003, I had the good fortune of getting invited along for a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula to try and ski the Bull Ridge on Mt. Francis on Anvers Island. We didn’t make it very far […]
Photo Gallery – 2002 Baffin Island
I’m slowly organizing my photo galleries and just got around to adding one of my all time favorite trips to StraightChuter.com – Baffin Island 2002. This was a great trip in a lot of ways. For one, we had no idea what to expect for skiing, and it turned out to be some of the […]
Lone Peak Cirque – Rock Climbing
Lone Peak Cirque in the Wasatch Mountains is Utah’s version of the Grand Teton. It is a long approach to get there (5,000′ of uphill on loose dirt), it tops out at around 11,300′ and it has some of the best, cleanest granite in all of the state. As if the multi-hour approach wasn’t hard […]
Desperate August Turns – Baldy Chute
In the name of product testing, I took a trip up the Old Reliable of the Wasatch, Main Baldy Chute at Alta yesterday. Main Chute is high, north facing and gets lots of upcanyon windloading, so it is often the first line to fill in and the last to melt out. About the only downside […]
Film School with Serac Adventure Films – Editing
Raw footage is to film as a tube of paint is to a painter – it helps to start with good quality, but the real artistry is how the paint or video is applied to the canvas/screen. In our case, we shot 2.5 hours of film and then spent 16 hours editing it. This seemed […]
Film School with Serac Adventure Films
Last year, Mountain Hardwear purchased a mini HD DVD camera, wide-angle lens, solar charger and all of the accessories needed to shoot videos on expeditions. I had a chance to take the kit with me on a trip into the Wrangell-St.Elias Mountains where I shot a bunch of crappy footage and edited together an even […]
Crested Beauties
Polly has been trying to get me to go to Crested Butte, Colorado for the last couple of years under the pretense that “it has beautiful wildflowers.” I’d hardly walk outside the front door to look at wildflowers, let alone drive for eight hours, but after three years, I caved in, and am happy I did. What she […]
Back From Crested Butte – Trip Report to Follow
We got back late Monday night from a fun wildflower-crushing trip to Crested Butte. Trip report to follow later today and eventually a little mini unicycle movie. The mountain biking in Crested Butte lived up to its reputation!
America’s Deadliest Avalanche
I’d always assumed that the worst avalanche accident in America involved a remote mining town or had something to do with the Gold Rush stampede. Miners were notorious for building towns like Alta right in the middle of avalanche run-out zones, then chopping down all of the surrounding trees/anchors for firewood. If it wasn’t that, […]
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