The multiple burial avalanche safety controversy is really what I’d call a reality strike for ski touring. Fact one: most buried avalanche victims must be dug out within 15 minutes or they perish. Fact two: digging a person out can easily reach the point of physical impossibility if only one person is on the shovel.
Sean Crossen
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This past Friday’s annual Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) fundraiser “Festival of the Peaks” was a raging success. Held at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, Colorado, the event included a silent auction with an amazing amount of merchandise, a Mexican…
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El Diente Descents, South Side Couloir and Repeat of DeVore Route, San Juan mountains Colorado trip report.
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Saturday we drove down to southern Colorado for a try at El Diente Peak, a fourteener near the town of Telluride that’s not particularly tough to ski, but has a lengthy approach with more than its fair share of avalanche…
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After hearing about huge snowfalls in the San Juan Mountains of south central Colorado, I’ve been eager to head down there and see if we could get an unusual early season peak descent. So we drove south on Friday with…
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Skiing the last few days out of Crested Butte, we skied the tighter chute mostly shaded just to the right of the big sunny face,run is about 2,500 vert and 40+ degrees.
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