Welcome to Louis (Lou) Dawson's backcountry skiing information & opinion website. Lou's passion for the past 50 years has been alpinism, climbing, mountaineering and skiing -- along with all manner of outdoor recreation. He has authored numerous books and articles about
ski touring and is well known as the first person to ski down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, otherwise known as the
Fourteeners! Books and free ski touring news and information here.
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Any chance of tshirts, hats, etc ever happening? I really dig Louie’s new sticker design, and would definitely buy a tshirt with that on the back. Maybe set up a Cafe Press site?
Keep up the good blogging, you are on my daily rundown of bookmarked”sites that make me really want to go skiing”
Lou,
I second Robs suggestion. I would gladly buy a t-shirt if they ever became available (Love Louie’s new design). Enjoy your blog.
Rob,
I love that blender rant on your blog.
Lou,
Way to go all out with the wildsnow.com promotion. Your binding plate is tempting.
Sky
Nice Lou. Glad to see Wildsnows presence in Denver. I’m sure the Clintons could use a couple of powder days after this go ’round. Ditto on the T-shirts.
The binding plate looks cool. I’d be all over it if it had a welded on volcano!
I agree the volcano should be a bit stronger, yet in truth it’s a “fuse” that prevents trip killer damage to the binding if it’s over-torqued or bashed. So I wouldn’t want to see it overly strong.
One point I should make, if you use this custom plate with volcano lifter on a TLT, you end up with slightly less heel lift than if you used the TLT with one spacer on top of heel post. Some folks like a bit less lift, some like more…
Nice designs Louie.
I would buy at least 3 T-shirts with the rapelling Louie on them.
I agree with Rob’s comment. Put the rappelling Louie on the back, and then just “WildSnow” in black on front pocket. Not too big.
For the T-shirt, I would not include the “.com”
It’s great to advertize on a bumpersticker, but I think people are less willing to advertise on a t-shirt. T-shirts can start a conversation, the ‘un-hip’ will soon learn that you have a web site from the wearer.
I don’t know, I have a closet full of all kinds of t-shirts.
With stickers you can post them on gear (water bottles, skis, helmets, etc…) on cars, space boxes, ski lift towers, etc…
Cheers,
HM