surviving down days
The new Ascent Magazine is out. Look for it at your local gear or coffee shop in the western states. This is the final issue of the season and with expeditions and spring trips on the way I put together…
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The new Ascent Magazine is out. Look for it at your local gear or coffee shop in the western states. This is the final issue of the season and with expeditions and spring trips on the way I put together…
We tried to sleep, but the corner room we had chosen was perfectly positioned into the wind so that it created a sweet whistling sound all night. We were all still so high from the skiing that we didn’t care….
For four days I followed Jason Schlarb, Scott Simmons and Paul Hamilton through the San Juan Mountains of Colorado connecting together the first completion of the iconic Hardrock 100 route on skis. Watch video HERE! The full four part trip…
The Grand Teton is one of the pinnacles of ski mountaineering in the lower 48 states. It’s big, complex and iconic! It requires ropes and crampons and ice axes and all that shit that makes you feel like you’re doing…
No it’s not the Tetons part 2, but that trip got me so damn inspired that I just wanted to go run up a rugged mountain instead of blagging! The North Ridge of the Pfeiff has long been on my…
“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…
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…