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This past weekend I competed in the Wyoming Round-Up skimo race. What is skimo? It’s short for ski mountaineering racing, formerly known as randonee racing. How the hell it became skimo? I have no idea. It’s a horrible name and…
Resolution of the new year, 2015 = blog regularly. I’ve realized in order to achieve this I’m going to have to lower my standards of what I consider “blog worthy.” It can’t always be first descents, link-ups, or big traverses as…
Another winter is slowly getting underway and lots of changes taking place. Excited about the partnership with Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal and seeing what a great job Paul Olerich is doing with it. The latest issue is out and…
I’m not a writer, but I enjoy the challenge it presents and the introspection it can award. And I really like sharing and discussing adventures on snow. I was invited to contribute to the new backcountry ski journal Ascent. The…
Too strange and hard to believe that Jonah and I just finished up work on our 10th backcountry film! This whole Powderwhore thing started as a joke, became a hobby and now it’s still a joke that sometimes feels like…
My good friend Mark Menlove over at the Winter Wildlands Alliance just sent over the letter below. I wanted to post it so that any backcountry travelers who check in here will take a minute (took me about 10mins) to…
I live 4 hrs from the greatest collection of ski mountaineering routes in the lower 48 and have never skied there until this spring. What the fuck! Seriously?! I’ve been to Antarctica, Svalbard, Baffin Island, but never just up the…
Decided to drag out and finish up this post from the unpublished blog files of winter 2014. For years I’ve been wanting to do a Parley’s Canyon to Provo Canyon tour because these canyons bookend the meat of…
“And you will come to find that we are all one mind capable of all that’s imagined and all conceivable.” “Reflection” by TOOL I guess it was on THIS outing last season that I really decided it was time…