August 2005

Home made alcohol stove is the ticket to lightweight travel! One of the best gear items we used for our Wind Rivers, Wyoming backpacking was a homebrew alcohol stove my son made from a Guinness beer can. The stove weighs…

We’ll get back to blogging backcountry gear and adventure in a moment… Meanwhile, we’re sending you Wildsnowers over to Code4x4.com to lower our bandwidth use and keep things more subject specific here and over at CODE. See CODE for all…

Shop for trekking poles. We’ve been using trekking poles for years. To us they’re usually known as “ski poles” and used during approach hikes for ski mountaineering. But we’ve used ’em for pure hiking as well, and still do. The…

This sign look familiar to any blog readers out there? We’re back from a week up in the Wyoming Wind River mountains, mucho gear reports and backcountry trip report coming soon. Was our best trip ever and the Winds are…

The boy at trailhead, hero pic by Dad. Black Diamond trekking pole is the ticket, If you have kids or remember your younger days, you can relate to the way growing up involves firsts. The first day you drive, first…

I liked this image from last week so much it had to be shared. The rounded glaciated rocks at upper left juxtaposed to the rubble below; the summer snow juxtaposed to water; the skier confronting the wide open. It says…

We’ve been having problems with the amount of data being pulled off Wildsnow.com (our web host will eventually want more money, groan). Turns out quite a few people are hotlinking to images here at wildsnow.com (meaning automatic links that display…

In a move that I’m sure had all backcountry skiing heli-haters throwing fits, last spring a helicopter landed on the summit of Mount Everest. The outfit that accomplished this presents information and video on Mount Everest Net. This amazing display…