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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…
The new Ascent Magazine is out. Look for it at your local gear or coffee shop in the western states. This is the final issue of the season and with expeditions and spring trips on the way I put together…
Ascent magazine has released their final issue for the season. I’m very proud of the job that Paul Olerich has done putting this rag together. It’s been fun to dive deeper and provide more than I do in these blog…
The past several years I’ve been on some incredible trips and fun adventures all over the world, many of them with local Wasatch photographer Jim Harris. There are few photographers with all the required skills to travel safely and…
Expeditions are a gamble, a roll of the dice. The first time I bet on the Revelations we ended up sitting in the town of Talkeetna in the rain for 7 days. Several years later I gave it another whirl…
Those who have compared our life to a dream are right… we are sleeping awake, and waking sleep. -Michel de Montaigne- I am living a dream. Few things in this life (dream) am I this certain of. I am living…
In preparing for my trip to the Arctic Circle I’ve been geeking out trying to get my cooking gear dialed in. Here are some of the helpful items I’ve picked up, or modifications I’ve made to existing gear. The goal…
Jim Harris and I attempted to traverse Mt Olympus, Twin Peaks and Lone Peak in one day. The total route is 17,000ft of climbing and descending over roughly 23miles. I’ve never so underestimated the terrain and time it would take…
I first heard about the Revelation Mountains while reading a book on climbing in Alaska. For some reason they just stuck in my head as a place I wanted to visit. Maybe it was my Religious upbringing and the mystery…
Too much time spent staring at the Pfiefferhorn and the mind does wander. Before ticking of PLINKO a few weeks ago, I was interested in this little ramp variation that would skirt around the standard rappel route. So Jim Harris…