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My friends Beau and KT live in Cooke City MT, just outside of Yellowstone N.P. They ski a lot and they enjoy the adventure side as much as the actual slide. They’re always ski-ming and dreaming up new outings, like…
The latest Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal is now available online and at a local gear shop near you (maybe). I decided to stick to story-telling in this issue instead of getting folks all bent out of shape with any more ranting…
Managed to finish up last weeks “week of new” with a real beauty. It was many, many years ago that I first saw what looked like a possible connections of chutes on the Northeast side of Storm Mountain. If you’re…
Today we had a great plan, but it didn’t really happen. I’m not going to give away the shot we wanted to ski, but we ended up climbing and skiing this fun little line off the south west ridge of…
Since the skin track was already in and there were plenty of new things to explore…..we decided to head back down to Mount Nebo yesterday. Andy spied a fun looking chute to check out in the massive upper cirque. The…
Andy Dorais and I headed down to Mount Nebo yesterday to check out this area that I spotted with the aid of Google Earth. It looked like a fun little cluster of chutes off the summit shoulder to the west….
Got stuck in town longer than I’d hoped this morning, but still got out for this quicky in the afternoon. A summer or two ago Jason Dorais and I traversed the Reed and Benson Ridge in BCC. Even though it…
The past 6 weeks have been one of the best stretches of powder skiing in the Wasatch that I can remember! All that snow, however has created considerable to high avalanche hazard ratings. Skiing the trees gets repetitious and the…
“If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little out of your…
Happy New Year! Cheers to deep powder and steep lines in 2016. It’s not a New Years resolution to go new places and ski new lines, that’s always been the goal. The tick list for the Wasatch is huge, but…