backcountry skier

Feathered Friends Volant down jackets reviewed, for backcountry skiing or expedition use

Tony had gotten a brain scan a few days before we skied Hayden last year. As it turned out, while he was up there getting 6,000 vert on a big Colorado mountain, the scan interpreter noticed a blood vessel in his brain was ballooned out in a large and potentially deadly aneurysm. It the thing had ruptured, even in civilization his chances of surviving would have been rare. Up on a mountain? Zero percent. In a word, it is miraculous Tony didn’t stroke out (as in permanently) during our Hayden Ski, what with the dehydration and raised blood pressure of hard endurance athletics.

Book review of Colorado 14er Disasters, about ski mountaineering accidents on Colorado’s 14,000 ft. peaks.

Congratulations to Deanna and Mark on their new baby Sean. Word is that Mark already has a pair of Dynafits hung over the crib, and the nursery decorated with a Swiss mountain hut interior theme. Word is he even shopped for Salewa pj’s, but had to settle for cutting down a Dynafit knit cap.

Celebrating the induction of backcountry skier and avalanche expert Knox Williams into the Colorado Ski Snowboard Hall of Fame.

Korngold’s book in the wilderness. Oh no, Lou’s gone all preachy on us! Not quite. I’ve got my own take on spirituality just as many of you do, but preaching Dynafit is my gig, not trying to sort out a…