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April 2008
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I guess we’re on a backcountry skiing classics tear. Yesterday, Mount Daly northeast of Marble, Colorado. Details in
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Lathrop Strang Dies on Mount Sopris, Colorado, while Ski Mountaineering
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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.
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Scarpa Skookum boot review for backcountry skiing and climbing
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Ski touring trip report for the Cleaver mountain near Marble and Carbondale, Colorado backcountry skiing.
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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…
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Congratulations Ted Mahon — All 14ers Skied, Completed With Descent of Capitol Peak
by Lou Dawsonby Lou DawsonNew ski route on Capitol Peak, Colorado by Ted Mahon and Al Beyer is impressive and difficult mountaineering.
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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…
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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…
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