Antarctic Peninsula - Photographer Jim Harris

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mount nebo nw couloir

Blog,Ski Mountaineering

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…

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lightning bolt attempt/rope retrieval in monte cristo

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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…

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y-not couloir-video

Blog,Epics,Powderwhore,Video

Threw this together today from some pretty bad footage I took last winter on a ‘Gray Sky’ day.  Jay Beyer and Dylan Freed and I all made our virgin trip down the Y-not Couloir. Watch on youtube HERE

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why not sober up in the y-not?

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Still cleaning out the camera from an amazing week of high pressure a week or so ago. This is a little trip down the Y-Not Couloir with Dylan Freed. We had bigger plans, but we both showed up a little…

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wolverine cirque in a day

Alaska,Blog,The Chuting Gallery,Training

This is a Wolverine: This is a Cirque: a deep steep-walled basin on a mountain usually forming the blunt end of a valley. This is Wolverine Cirque: If you’re not familiar with Wolverine Cirque, well actually I don’t believe that’s…

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chugach expedition

Alaska,Blog,Gear,Video

In the Spring of 2007 Darrell Finlayson and I had plans to fly to a very remote Alaskan range to spend a few weeks freezing our asses off and skiing. The weather had other plans for us and our pilot…

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wasatch supercoaster

Blog,Gear

Winter is over, but there are still many trips, vids, and pics that I’m planning on dragging out of the past to post. We’ll begin with this trip report from a few years ago. I wasn’t blogging then and wanted…

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the grunge

Blog,Gear,Washington

The Grunge Couloir (NE Couloir of Mount Timpanogos) Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. The word…

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snapdragon and sliver

Blog,The Chuting Gallery

A few weeks ago Darrell and I headed out to ski some chutes in Hogum Fork, up LCC. Our plan was to start later in the day, ski the Snapdragon, camp overnight, ski the Sliver in the morning and then…