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Anton Sponar

Anton Sponar
Anton Sponar

WildSnow.com guest blogger Anton Sponar spends winters enjoying the Aspen area of Colorado, while summers are taken up with slave labor doing snowcat powder guiding at Ski Arpa in Chile. If Anton didn’t ski every month and nearly every week of the year, skiing would cease to exist as we know it.

  • Ski Mountaineering Expedition Menu (July 8, 2015)

  • Fine Glacier Dining: Planning Food for the Ski Expedition (July 7, 2015)

  • Avalanche Dreams and Scary Valley — Mount Hayes Alaska (May 8, 2015)

  • Delta Junction — Last Stop Before Mount Hayes Basecamp (May 4, 2015)

  • Salomon Mountain Collection Firstlook — 2015 OR Show Fun Begins (January 20, 2015)

  • SkiTheBig3 — Anton’s Gear (October 31, 2014)

  • #SkiTheBig3 14,200-Foot Denali Resort and Climber’s Rest Home (May 30, 2014)

  • #SkiTheBig3 — Washburn Route 11,000 foot Camp — Denali (May 27, 2014)

  • #SkiTheBig3 — Icefall Success during Mount Hunter Approach — AK (May 9, 2014)

  • #SkiTheBig3 — Ski The AK Big Three — Post Number One (April 28, 2014)

  • ABS Vario 40 — Airbag Pack Review (March 14, 2013)

  • Black Diamond Carbon Megawatt Ski Review — Tordrillo Mtns, AK (August 8, 2012)

  • Voile Vector – Ski Review (June 24, 2011)

  • Garmont Masterlite Boot Review — Power of Four Rando Race (March 23, 2011)

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