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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…
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….
Each year I sign on for another slideshow or two. I enjoy going to them, more than I like presenting them. I do enjoy drinking a little too much and trying to tell entertaining tales with what is usually family…
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,…
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….
Before proceeding it’s probably best to catch up with Part 1 if you haven’t already read it. Back at camp we sat and stared up at the Moose’s Tooth while the sun dried our boot liners.Visualization is important for the…
The past two years I have attempted to ski in the Central Alaska Range in spring. I flew up to Anchorage, bought food and fuel, met up with motivated and capable partners, but just ended up spending weeks in Talkeetna…