October 2008

Global warming move over, this guy melts avalanches just by looking at them!

Interview with Bill Briggs, ski mountaineering pioneer who did the first descent of Grand Teton, Wyoming.

Want to ramp up your avalanche danger evaluation skills? One thing that helps is keeping avy specific records of your trips so you can step back and review lesson learned. Sure, you can do that with memory (that’s what I do), but memory fails and your brain isn’t like a book you can just page through years after an event.

As I roll up to the park where Jess is waiting to shuttle me home, I simply say to her, “meet me by the river,” and keep pedaling by. I can ride to river access in less time than she’ll…

Sole Platinum sandals review for apres backcountry skiing footwear

Oh yeah Wildsnowers, a bit of refurbishing still goin’ down. First, I got the top menu bar and overall layout working in Internet Exploder 6, which my stats show quite a few of you guys still use. So enjoy. I’ll…

PSA: I’ve been working with 10th Mountain Huts for a few months getting their online store up and running. It’s been a long process but now 10th Mountain Hut users can get maps and logo gear by web shopping rather…

During the recent annual meeting of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) in Smith Rock, Oregon, longtime guide and ski alpinist Bela Vadasz was presented with the AMGA Lifetime Achievement Award. Bela and Mimi Vadasz founded Alpine Skills International in…

About halfway through the lecture on “Federal Agencies and NEPA,” I really started wondering why I was there. Winter Wildlands Alliance (WWA) is a non-profit that advocates for what they call “quiet winter use,” meaning they’re anti snowmobile. Most of…