Trip Reports
Baldy Chute – August 10th. ??!!
Alta’s Main Baldy Chute is one of my favorite little couloirs – little as in about 750 vertical feet and fairly easy to get to. When I first moved back to Utah long ago, it was at the top of my wishlist as far as lines I was dying to ski and I thought that […]
Pilot Bread Smackdown
The following video shows what happens in a cook tent when you are sitting around on a glacier in the Arctic Circle in a complete and total white out. Juvenile humor ensues.
Scooter Town
As a first time visitor to the town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, it is hard not to be astounded at the number of “snoscooters” or snowmobiles sitting around. They are randomly parked by the side of the road, grouped in clusters of 2 or 3, amassed in lots of 50, left up on pallets, slowly […]
Back From the Ice Coast
I’m back from a month in the Arctic and it was a culture shock to go from down jackets and hats to shorts, sandals and t-shirts in 24 hours! Best of all, it actually gets dark here at night so you have some idea what time it is. ;)
Skiing 80 Degree Slopes
Eighty degrees north, not 80 degrees in steepness, although you never know… One of the most influential things I’ve ever read was a fortune cookie which said “Practice Saying Yes.” It wasn’t even my fortune, but I adopted the philosophy and it has served as a starting point for many, many expeditions. Trips take on […]
Silverton Mini TR
Silverton, CO was great as always, and it was fun to see some friends, do some skiing and enjoy the fantastic mountains. The first day we skied a very aesthetic little couloir known as “Crown Royal” as I think it goes off of Crown Peak. Conditions were mixed, but the chute was a 5-star beauty […]
Good to Great BC Skiing above 9k in the Wasatch
I was so excited about my new avalanche airbag pack that I forgot to take photos of the skiing today, but it is amazingly good in the higher reaches of the Wasatch. Egress and exits are lumpy but aside from that, it was great. A friend dug a pit at about 10k and reported a […]
Revelation Mountains – Alaska
This trip began two years ago as a brain-child of Noah Howell. Noah had heard vague rumors of a remote, rugged mountain range called the Revelations and had tried to fly in there from Talkeetna but was thwarted by the weather. In the big AK picture, the Revelations are about 140 miles west/northwest of Anchorage […]
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