As long time backcountry skiers my wife and I have always been excited to share the exploration and fun of back country skiing with our children. We got just that chance recently with a late season blast of snow and a hut trip we’d planned with our friends. Check out one of our best yet ski adventures.
Penn Newhard
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Our version of the Whitehouse is plenty white, but it’s not a house. Instead, it’s this big hunk of rock you climb and ski. I got up there the other day with Penn Newhard of Backbone Media. Always good to get out with Penn and talk about family life, along with trying to scam airline tickets to his latest European luxury press junket espresso fest. He’s used being hit up like that, and somehow always turns the focus back to climbing and making turns. Oh well, espresso is over rated!
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4TH Annual Friends of the CAIC ASPEN SOCIAL & BENEFIT DINNER 26 January 2008, 6pm, Carbondale, Colorado Restaurant Six89 is hosting the 4TH Annual “Friends of the CAIC” Social and Benefit Dinner on Monday, January 26th, at 6:00pm. The evening…
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There is nothing more special as a parent then sharing what you love with your kids. You might be a musician molding your boy’s fingers to a fretboard for the first time, or a poet slicing and dicing words till your girl’s smile splits her face like an ocean sunrise, or a farmer checking your crop in an earthy hands-on way that grabs that primal part of your kid’s core.
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Congratulations and Happy 11th Birthday Chapin Newhard – On Your First Fourteener Ski Descent
by Penn Newhardby Penn NewhardChapin told me he wanted to ski a 14er for his birthday (he turns 11 at the end of the month), so Big John Gloor and I meandered up Quandary this past Saturday and we ended up snagging Cristo Couloir in windy and creamy conditions.
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Lathrop Strang Dies on Mount Sopris, Colorado, while Ski Mountaineering