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Our adventure continues! Drake and I took a recon flight and found a sweet zone to call home. There was only one clear day forecast for the 2 week duration of the trip and it was coming up tomorrow. We…
So obviously Haines is THE place for big mountain riding, right? I mean this is where the most amazing footage has been coming from for many years now. Six of us from PW productions were lucky enough to make the…
I did pre-apologize to Darrell about this one, but he ended up still walking away mad. The plan was to tick off the Generator Couloir up Big Cottonwood Canyon. We then booted all the way out the creek and to…
I’ve been heading up to AK and the Valdez/Thompson Pass area for the past several winters to film ‘big mountain’ lines for the PW flicks. This year we all wanted to try something different. We were tired of being cooped…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again? A bit obsessed with this line by now, Courtney and I went back for a second attempt Sunday morning. Unfortunately our story stops here, or at least doesn’t continue down the…
The early bird gets the worm and the tardy skier gets the weather. Courtney Phillips and I started hiking with beautiful blue skies and spring temps late this morning. However, stormy weather started coming in as we reached the upper…
I got a call from Derek Weiss to go ski Mt Nebo the other day. It seemed about time to get down to check out this nearby peak that has been beckoning for years. Derek posted a great TR with…
Despite it’s heinous looking traverse out the bottom, I headed out this morning to ski the Lightning Bolt Couloir. On booting up the lookers left chute (Thunderstruck) I realized I was a bit too late. The snow was warm and…
No real powder to speak of, so it must be steep skiing time. Spring conditions mean good snow pack stability, but often questionable turning conditions. I’ve been obsessing over this massive line that stares down at you every time you…
If a picture can say a thousand words then here are 3 thousand expletives that come close to communicating how skiing makes me feel and why I devote most of my life’s time and energy to it. We raced against the…