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The big Wasatch thaw continues and so does the ticking of big lines. Last week Billy and I went to explore an eye opening line he’d been eyeing for some time. I had a faint idea of what he was…
We decided to go big and go for this cool line on Mount Hamilton that we had seen from across the valley while on Ellie. The line runs off the summit to the left, down the ridge to the cool…
Pretty speechless about the winter we’ve been having! It’s been mostly deep powder skiing with a few short breaks in snow and weather to get into some higher peaks and ski big objectives. Thankfully the stability has been good the…
Ok, so I lied. I said this was going to be a 4 part series on NZ, but when I looked closer The Kelman Hut and everything we skied there, it would just be way too long for one post….
We tried to sleep, but the corner room we had chosen was perfectly positioned into the wind so that it created a sweet whistling sound all night. We were all still so high from the skiing that we didn’t care….
It’s been over a year since Beau Fredlund, Adam Fabrikant and Billy Haas and I went on a complete skiing rampage in New Zealand. Beau and I did a series of brief trip reports for Wildsnow.com, but I wanted to…
Booo! That’s right, I’m still here, still blogging, just haven’t been doing much of it lately. Wow, what a snowy and incredible winter it’s been! I’ve been working on some video and photo projects, the OR show was in town,…
“The public out cry for ultra-endurance skimo adventure films with spandex clad ski-runners has been heard and answered with SKIING THE HARDROCK 100” -Sastrugi Magazine- “Several kick turns above the rest.” -Skimo Daily- This was a difficult challenge on both the filming and editing…
I discovered steep skiing when I was young. It was the era when Kris Erickson, Hans Saari, Andrew McLean, Alex Lowe, Doug Coombs and others were bringing a more twisted vision of what could be descended in the North American mountains….
Ben and I requested a fly over of the Archangel Ridge on Mount Foraker. We wanted to have a good look at our intended line and snap some recon photos for closer inspection. The pilot called in to HQ for approval….