Up here on the northern half of spaceship earth we are definitely in the dog days, but they’re having at it down south. In more ways than one. I was amused by this ditty from Ingrid Backstrom about the interesting…
Aron Ralston
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I was amused by a recent article about Aron Ralston in Mountain Gazette, Colorado’s wordy journal that covers an eclectic mix of verbiage, all loosely associated with life in the mountain west. The piece by Vince Welch is titled “The…
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Back from backcountry skiing today here in central Colorado. We looked for corn snow, found a few silky turns, but mostly found difficult variable conditions. We rated overall avy danger as considerable because of heat, so didn’t get much done.…
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According to the well known one-handed alpinist and backcountry skier, he completed the peaks over March 3-9 and had ‘excellent weather… stable snow…spring-like conditions on many aspects.’
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Our culture’s (or human kind’s?) obsession with the gladiator is fascinating. Rednecks enjoy NASCAR and boxing. Cultural elites sniff, then snap up books by John Krakaur and Aron Ralston like they’re going out of style. The risks our gladiators take…
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At any rate, lots of fun goals for snow sports on the fourteeners, ski, climb, snowboard — anything reasonable.