Tag: Ski Mountaineering
New Chuting Gallery Hats & Gift Combo
Book & Hat Gift Combo The ultimate starter kit for steep skiing in the Wasatch Mountains, or an excellent gift for your favorite chute skiing fanatic. This is a combo gift package of a signed copy of “The Chuting Gallery – A Guide to Steep Skiing in the Wasatch Mountains” and an embroidered Ouray Sideline […]
35mm Slide Scanning
After staring at a closet of 25,000+ 35mm color slides, I finally got around to having 1,000 of them digitized. It only took me about 3 years to cull them down, organize them and send them off, but it is great to have all of these old images in modern format. Part of the project […]
Europe 2018 Trip Report – Lyngen Alps, Norway
The Lyngen Alps in northern Norway is so perfectly suited for skiing it is almost like it was designed as a 600 square mile ski mountaineering amusement park. There are roughly 145 peaks ranging from about 3,000′ up to 6,000′ and most of them have runs on every aspect and can be done as a […]
Europe 2018 Trip Report – Chamonix
After only spending 36 hours there, I feel a little sheepish about writing a trip report about Chamonix, especially as we only skied the default beginner run, the Mer du Glace. But as much as anything, Chamonix is the birthplace of modern alpinism and ski alpinism, so just being there and catching a glimpse of […]
Europe 2018 Trip Report – Switzerland
Switzerland was part one of a three part trip to Europe which inadvertently came about as a way to salvage plans and plane tickets from a trip to Greenland which was cancelled due to lack of snow. Like much of skiing, it was destiny as Europe was having a great snow year and many of […]
Pioneer Mountains and Yurt – Idaho
It only took me about 25 years to get around to it, but after being on my wishlist for far too long, I finally made it up to Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains recently. I first heard of them from Pete Patterson who told me that they were his favorite range, which says a lot considering that […]
Just the Tip Video Compilation
Towards the end of the 2017 winter, I started shooting a series of short videos on ski mountaineering skills. Originally it was going to be entitled “Tips and Tricks” but during a powder session with Andy Jacobsen and Noah Howell, two of the original PowderWhores founders, it became “Just the Tip” with an intro suggested […]
Skiing and Snow Anchors
I doubt that most visitors to Park City will ever need to rappel during a ski descent while on vacation here, but rope work and anchors can come in handy for ski mountaineering descents. At times it might be a full-on rope stretching affair like skiing the Grand Teton in low snow, and at other […]
2014 Ice Axe Expeditions Antarctic Ski Cruise Trip Report
Another Ice Axe Antarctic Ski Cruise has gone down in the history books, and like all those before it, this was yet another good one. I love how these trips start by collecting people from all over the world, squeezing them into South America, and then distilling all of that down to the very southern […]
Ski Mountaineering Wand Making – Greatest Fails
According to Malcom Gladwell’s theory that a person can only achieve true mastery of an activity by doing it for ten thousand hours, I’m almost a wand building prodigy. This is nothing to be proud of (except if you are my mom) and came about accidentally when I was building wands to mark ski mountaineering […]
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