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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…
No real powder to speak of, so it must be steep skiing time. Spring conditions mean good snow pack stability, but often questionable turning conditions. I’ve been obsessing over this massive line that stares down at you every time you…
In case you have been skiing too much to keep up on your internetting, you better check out the following. Andrew McLean just finished up a 10 day odyssey up and down the ‘Classic’ lines of the Wasatch. See the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An interactive choose your own adventure trip to Kings Peak. It’s a beautiful Sunday (day of rest) late in the spring do you- A) Sleep in, eat a huge plate of flap jacks, attend the proper church meetings (assuring your…
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…