Details from Elk Mountains Traverse – Crossen Crew
I had the privilege this morning of assembling text and photos from a Crested Butte, Colorado crew’s stunning attempt at a backcountry skiing traverse of the high Elk Mountains in central Colorado, including exploration of a possible new ski route on Capitol Peak. Check it out.
Posted by Lou Dawson on May 6, 2005 | Filed Under Fourteeners, Trip Reports Backcountry
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- Canon PowerShot SX260 HS 12.1 MP CMOS Digital Camera: Hi there this is somewhat of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use WYS...
- Greg: (Missed this one) Failure #5 - The side rails bent as well. Amazing ho...
- Greg: Scott ended up sending me replacement ski/tour mechanisms, so I swapped out...
- Billy Roos: If they are a model R, as above, I'm interested. Let me know how to contac...
- Nick: I got my Guides directly from the plum website (it only took them two days ...
- Lou Dawson: Hi Kns, they're worth shipping cost plus perhaps $15.00, if someone really ...
- Kris Kingery: Good Morning! My father had a small collection of ski equipment that I am ...
- Bill: I was never warm to the plastic clips on the Polvere and Volare. Have not ...
- Matt: Thanks for posting this. I was one of the unlucky ones to receive a bindin...
- Lou Dawson: K2 Wayback, same concept, has rocker, but not as light in comparison to oth...
- gringo: Nice job on this project guys...well done. _Lou, do you happen to know w...
- Daniel: tetontrick, for me that ski is my 181 k2 backlash, which is still quite ...
- Bob Perlmutter: Tetonrick, the wise guy answer to your question would be a quiver. I'm goin...
- Bob Perlmutter: Bill, the problem is not when skinning but when skiing soft snow. In the ca...
- Tetonrick: Good review and the charts are great. But what is a good example of a ski m...
- Bill: Bob I cannot picture how the Volare tip is catching snow? I use the pol...
- David B: Interesting Bob, I have a pair of Trab Stelvio Freeride XL's which I love B...
- Lou Dawson: Bob, am loading the shotgun. Of course, Trabuki already probably has some "...
- Bob Perlmutter: Forget the Freedom, I'll take the "63" Sedan. I have a pair of Volare so th...
- Lou Dawson: Kelly, human beings have all sorts of motivations, usually in combination. ...
- Kelly: Gotta wonder how many folks have done the same without the need to blog or ...
- Mike Marolt: Nice work. Very cool....
- Rob: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Maserati4Porte1968...
- John: Bob, How do they compare to the Volare? They appear to be similar to the M...
- Stano: Congrats Matt, that's the way to live, never give up things that you love t...
- Lou Dawson: Thanks Carl -- and again, congratulations! It's indeed amazing the resource...
- Lou Dawson: Travis, LOL, and yes I'd totally agree that sometimes our 'high tech' stuff...
- Steven Threndyle (@threndyleski): Lou: You are on to something. I think that there should be a trail head che...
- Travis: Unfortunate that this has devovled into a ridiculous converstion on semanti...
- Carl: Thanks for the comments Lou (and others who replied). It's been an incredib...
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