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Expeditions are a gamble, a roll of the dice. The first time I bet on the Revelations we ended up sitting in the town of Talkeetna in the rain for 7 days. Several years later I gave it another whirl…
It’s still a little early for movie trailers, but a short teaser from our Antarctica segment might cool things off a little. Traveling to exotic locations to film skiing is a legalized form of gambling. Similar to hopping on the fun…
I won’t go on and on again about how surreal and incredible it is to ski off a luxury cruise liner on the Antarctic Penninsula. I already did that HERE. Ice Ace Expeditions and my friend Doug Stoup have announced the dates and…
Those who have compared our life to a dream are right… we are sleeping awake, and waking sleep. -Michel de Montaigne- I am living a dream. Few things in this life (dream) am I this certain of. I am living…
When Andrew and I made plans for Spitsbergen last spring, the idea was to kite and ski outside of town and see what we could find. This sounded like a great enough trip in itself. Shortly after we had decided…
Mid summer and I’m still posting about Spring trips. This is the final installment from the month long visit to Spitsbergen. We had a day or two in between to rest up and dry out gear before we boarded the…
You travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. -Ella Maillart- Off we go by snowscooter with loaded down pulks full of gear. The 4hr ride was pretty cush and the seals, reindeer, fjords and endless peaks kept the…
Spring means 2 things, spring expeditions! The past several years have been to Alaska and I was planning on returning to do a sea to summit expedition with Nick Devore and Andy Jacobsen. We kept an eye on conditions and…
Throwing all the gear in a pile and then staring at it doesn’t actually make it get smaller or lighter. On the current trip to the Arctic, we will be taking advantage of the endless daylight to ski and kite…
I first heard about the Revelation Mountains while reading a book on climbing in Alaska. For some reason they just stuck in my head as a place I wanted to visit. Maybe it was my Religious upbringing and the mystery…