Antarctic Peninsula - Photographer Jim Harris

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twin peaks

Blog,First Descents

Resolution of the new year, 2015 = blog regularly. I’ve realized in order to achieve this I’m going to have to lower my standards of what I consider “blog worthy.” It can’t always be first descents, link-ups, or big traverses as…

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curl

Blog,Training

The devil, or whomever is running the show at this point, will indeed find things for idle hands and feet to do. This summer has been a great mix of trail running and gym time. I’m feeling faster and fitter…

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Some Thing Else

Blog,Gear,Powderwhore

Too strange and hard to believe that Jonah and I just finished up work on our 10th backcountry film! This whole Powderwhore thing started as a joke, became a hobby and now it’s still a joke that sometimes feels like…

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Central Wasatch Traverse

Blog,Gear,Winter 2014

    Decided to drag out and finish up this post from the unpublished blog files of winter 2014. For years I’ve been wanting to do a Parley’s Canyon to Provo Canyon tour because these canyons bookend the meat of…

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tushar mountains-mount baldy

Blog

    This past weekend was my mothers retirement party in St George. Good excuse to get outside the Wasatch and explore on the way down south. I’ve only skied in the Tushar Mountains once and well, we did more…

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Winter Wildlands Alliance

Blog,Video

First Wasatch Backcountry Alliance, then Save Our Canyons and now Winter Wildlands Alliance? I thought this was a ski adventure blog full of self absorbed vanity projects. Oh well, I promise to get back to that soon, so bear with…

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Wasatch Backcountry Alliance

Blog

    The Wasatch Backcountry Alliance was recently formed in hopes of bringing the human powered winter community together and giving it representation. I’m honored to have been asked to be one of the founding board members. I’ve seen many…

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tools of the trade

Blog,Gear,Ski Mountaineering,Video

  I haven’t blogged about gear very much in the past because I do a bunch of gear reviews over at Backcountry.com. They make it easy to get the product information, post reviews and ask questions. And now you can…

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buried weak layers

Avalanche Awareness,Blog,Gear

    Trips are popping up and the calendar is filling in. The hit list seems to grow daily. Gear is dialed. I’m fit and chomping at the bit after two less than satisfactory winters in the Wasatch. We are…

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utah skimo

Blog,SkiMo

The skiing is lack luster, but that shouldn’t stop us from putting the hurt on and conditioning for the snow that will come.   Whether you’re rocking light, or might, come out to the inaugural Wasatch Citizens Series race this…