April 2008

Picking a college when you are a ski mountaineer is not that tough, Western Washington University fits the bill to a tee.

I guess we’re on a backcountry skiing classics tear. Yesterday, Mount Daly northeast of Marble, Colorado. Details in

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.

Scarpa Skookum boot review for backcountry skiing and climbing

I’d been wanting this one for years. Had skied a subpeak of Sievers decades ago, but knew of beautiful lines that drop to Maroon Creek. Bob Perlmutter had the best one on his list — he’d been “looking at it…

The alpine of the Aspen and Crested Butte area has been in prime backcountry skiing condition for days now, and it’s getting hit big. Pyramid Peak has been skied by two groups (one from the summit), Capitol Peak was skied…

Check out the view we got of Pyramid Peak east face with Landry Route. Yesterday we had a great day on Ski Hayden peak near Aspen — we played our cards right and got about 5,000 vert of quality backcountry…