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The quest to finish the Chuting Gallery continues with the classic Lightning Bolt on Cardiac Ridge. Rating-S6+, Pitch-60 degrees, Vertical 450ft Some great quotes from the book- “hopefully avoided all together” “seldom in good shape, lots of rocks in it…
The original post on this outing was deleted in the transfer of servers, so here is an updated version. When I first saw Andrew Mclean’s book ‘The Chuting Gallery’ I was dumbfounded. I was peacefully enjoying the powder bowls of…
I’m not really sure who is out there reading this, but my guess is it’s folks who love the mountains like I do. Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy this, the 100th post!! When I started blogging a…
The plan for the day was to climb Kessler four times and ski the four main lines off the peak by working our way from the East Couloir to God’s Lawnmower, then Argenta and finishing into Mineral Fork with the…
Traded in the city of salt for the city of rocks this weekend. Yes, there is an entire city of rocks. I had heard of it, but never before been If I were a rock climber and were to build…
Just returned from my longest visit to the endless mountains of Alaska. I drove up on the first of April and returned last weekend. I’m still sorting gear, pics and catching up, but I’ll post some trip reports soon. For…
My first encounter with the goat was waaaaaay back in the late 90’s when they had a store front outside of Heber. I went into what appeared to be a cool gear shop, but they told me I couldn’t buy…
So, this has been one of the slowest starts to winter I can recall. Pretty frustrating if you’re committed to making a ski film from a production company named Powderwhore. Maybe we should have gone with something else that would…
It’s been a long long time (maybe since 1998) that I haven’t been working long hours through the summer to save up for winter. First it was manual labor in San Diego, then over the past few season’s I’ve been…