May 2008

Castle Peak East Face ski mountaineering trip report, Elk Mountains in Colorado have plenty of options.

May 29 PM Update Inside source says the official opening of Independence Pass is now June 5th, 1:00 PM. Source also says they’ll be grinding some of the road for new pave, so bicycle riders may not exactly enjoy that…

Knox Williams, Colorado’s statewide avalanche hazard forecasting pioneer is the backcountry skiing inductee to Colorado’s Ski Hall of Fame.

Climb and ski of Mount Boddington, The Ram Horn, Colorado mountain at head of Fryingpan drainage, Sawatch mountains.

Skiing Savage Couloir and Savage Peak, Sawatch Mountains in Colorado, this is a very accessible ski tour that is highly recommended.

Mounting Silvretta ski bindings and other frame bindings is fairly easy, but you have to do everything with care or you’ll have problems while ski touring.

Crested Butte newspaper is full of flood angst, yesterday we ski slush that never got the nightly firm-up. Then today we head out for Mineral Point and what do we get? Full on blizzard conditions. Abused the Nytro driving on…

Had to deliver grandma Patricia (my mom) back to Crested Butte, so Louie and I loaded up our skis and the Nytro and headed over to the other side of the Elk Mountains. I’ve backcountry skied around Crested Butte quite…

It’s well known to the ski crampon cognicenti that Fritschi OEM ski binding crampons are less than ideal, because they rise with the binding rail and may have little bite when you’re in the higher heel rise positions. To solve…

Lynn Durr is a backcountry skiing peak off the Castle Creek Road out of Aspen. Once they plow the last mile or two of road, as they do every spring around this time, you can backcountry ski a quality 3,000 vertical feet from your tailgate. Our friend Bob Perlmutter got it more than once over the past week, so I figured we’d better get up there and see what was going on. Besides, nice place for son Louie’s first post-high-school backcountry skiing.