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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…
I have always been a slow reader, but I never imagined it would take me 13 years to finish a flimsy paperback. ‘Why would you want to ski that’? I remember thinking as Andrew Mclean was dryly presenting his steep…
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…
As we cautiously skied by the rusted out relics I felt like we were entering the ‘Forbidden Zone’ from the Planet Of The Apes . In fact Andrew and I silently coasted through the entire town with hardly a word…
Drew Stoecklein has been hell bent on getting into the distant peaks behind his folks ranch to make some turns. He’s gone through hell over the last few years to make that happen. With failed attempts involving everything from donkey’s…
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…
Some very unexpected and upsetting news last week. Kip Garre died in an avalanche with Allison Kreutzen while they were on a day trip to ski Split Mountain in the High Sierra. I spent a few days with Kip waiting…
The quest to finish the Chuting Gallery continues with the classic Lightning Bolt on Cardiac Ridge. Rating-S6+, Pitch-60 degrees, Vertical 450ft Some great quotes from the book- “hopefully avoided all together” “seldom in good shape, lots of rocks in it…