Louie and I headed up to Days Fork from Alta today. This popular area tends to be a circus on weekends, but I find weekdays up there to be totally reasonable. (Being from where a “crowd” is 3 other cars…
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January 2006
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Sport plan today was a powder hit in the morning, then off to the OR show in the afternoon. With more than a foot of fresh last night we were set. Hooked up with Poly McLean and Wizard of the…
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Garmont Endorphin is a good example of the interesting (but some would say bothersome) trend of most randonnee gear becomming as beefy as alpine gear. These things really are an alpine boot with a rando sole. Very stylish and useful…
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Rick Wyatt to left, holding forth with some funny tale about his life as a mountain man, Andrew to right. Rick is known as the guy who in 1982 did a ski descent of the Grand Teton using leather nordic…
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Skiing the Fourteeners ethics, what does it mean to ski a fourteener
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Water bottles for ski touring, tip, just use a disposable bottled water container to save weight during backcountry trips.
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Comments on, use “comments” link at bottom of post. Thought I’d drop over to Dav’s website. Good news, with a descent of Mount Lincoln this past Sunday he’s officially started his project to make complete descents of all 54 Colorado…
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Gear for Spring Backcountry Skiing Traverse and tour, it’s worth working on your exact choices in mountaineering kit.
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Cloudveil Rayzar Softshell Rayzar is the ideal backountry skiing soft-shell: light weight, with no more doodads than is absolutely necessary (except for the ipod pocket, but that’s pretty much necessary). It has a rough textured and stretchy Cordura soft-shell fabric…
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Open for comments. Saturday at last, and not just any weekend… We headed up to the Marble area here in central Colorado. The snowpack is amazingly solid, so we felt good about dancing through the intense avalanche terrain of this…
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