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Last year I was asked to speak at the USAW (Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop). I don’t think the presentation went very well, I tried to pack too much in, my delivery was poor and I was cut short on…
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….
After a bout of getting fat and being lazy, and a minor injury, (and lamenting foiled spring ski trips) I’ve been slowly getting back into the mountains. Gathering vertical, volume, and dropping some lbs is easy to do with so…
No it’s not the Tetons part 2, but that trip got me so damn inspired that I just wanted to go run up a rugged mountain instead of blagging! The North Ridge of the Pfeiff has long been on my…
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. -Denis Waitley- W= It’s in the heart…
The Wasatch is packed full of good trails for hiking and running, or routes for climbing, and a few great scrambles. My preference is grappling up the steep stuff that doesn’t require a rope. I’ve been recently enjoying a steady…
I have always been a slow reader, but I never imagined it would take me 13 years to finish a flimsy paperback. ‘Why would you want to ski that’? I remember thinking as Andrew Mclean was dryly presenting his steep…
On April 1st 2011 I skied the NE Face of the Pfeifferhorn with Andy Jacobsen and Andrew McLean. This closes the book on a 13 year project to ski all the lines in Andrew’s skiing guidebook ‘The Chuting Gallery’. I…