With our Avy Awareness Night going on this week, a lot of our vendors are in town to attend. We had a clinic with Marcus Petersen at the shop yesterday and I got a good dose of the Ortovox kool-aid. Honestly, I’ve been interested to hear the spiel again on the S1 since getting some […]
Gear
My new hydration setup. I don’t know about you all, but I am definitely a CamelBak-type hydration fan. I don’t like to stop that much on the uphills, so I find being about to drink on the go helpful instead of waiting for a break and then guzzling water. Yeah…occasionally the tubes freeze, but filling […]
My niece Brooke and nephew Micheal. One more post about my Thanksgiving trip. The main goal of going back east over the Thanksgiving holiday is to visit with family. I have a niece and nephew that I haven’t spent much time with, so much of my visit is spent wrestling and playing soccer and baseball […]
I’m donating a pair of orange Dynafit TLT’s to Julia for her conversion to the dark-side. This pair has been on a few pairs of skis over the years, and most recently I mounted them on a pair of old straight skis to go sand skiing late this summer. I needed to clean them up […]
I got a test pack of ProBars a week or two ago and I’ve got a box of my favorites for the trip to Orizaba. Sometimes my stomach doesn’t like certain flavors or combos when I’m in the mountains, so I tried to eat them while in the mountains…or during long trail runs…instead of just […]
Oh yeah…I saw this big guy crossing the road on the way to the trailhead. Hope he’s ready to run through the gauntlet of hunters!
I’ve only had one of the new Suunto CORE watches for a few days now and I can’t believe how many people have asked me about it. When I first saw these watches at Summer Outdoor Retailer in August, I thought they were mainly just fluffed up old models…focusing on fashion…but after playing with it […]
The original CD (Chris Denny) from Denny Inc. stopped by the shop the other day to show off this cool new mountaineering book: Free Skiing: How to Adapt to the Mountain, which includes many tips relating to ski mountaineering. The book was put together by Swed, Jimmy Oden, who now resides in Switzerland. Jimmy is […]
I’ve got to tell you, last week I was waiting on pins and needles for some Dynafit products to arrive…mainly the new Zzero 4 CF boots and Vertical FT bindings. I only tried the Zzeros on once in Tim Kelley’s (Dynafit Sales Manager) office last year, when Dynafit was with Life-Link and based Jackson, so […]
I was able to get out with the kite on Saturday after SAR training. I went on Friday to try, but there wasn’t enough wind and I struggled to get the kite to launch. The wind was better the following day and I was able to get the kite up in the air. I felt […]
As the ski season gets closer and closer, I find myself getting to know my gear better and better. For the past two winters I’ve been riding a pair of 183 Havocs (circa 05/06) that I have found to be extremely versatile. They’ve been around the block so to speak, and this winter I am […]
I bought a few new toys recently with the money I made selling some gear on The Swap Shop. I’m still waiting for some to arrive, but I picked up this OZONE Access II Snow Kite from Hoback Sports and I’ve been itching to get it out for a test drive! I broke my cherry […]
If any of you are half as psyched as I am to check out the new Zzero 4 CF boots from Dynafit, you definitely need to check out their new micro-site. Dynafit Speed Up is a way for the US based distributors to focus on the needs and highlights of what we on the other […]
No doubt regluing climbing skins is one of the nastiest jobs related to backcountry skiing. Removing the old dog hair, pine needles, and kick wax encrusted glue can be a pain. We do it at the shop, use a heated scraper and glue sheets to get the job done right. You can also use Gold […]
I’m going for a speed mission to Gannett Peak in the Wind River Mountains with Julia today. The plan is to leave Jackson at 4am Monday morning, and drive to the Green River Lakes trailhead. We should be able to move pretty fast on the road at that time, so we are hoping to be […]
I thought this one looked the coolest I am defiantly one of those people that feels naked without a watch and besides climbing, there is really only one other activity that I take it off for. 😉 Suunto is the largest manufacturer of precision instruments for all outdoor activities from diving, to skiing, to mountaineering, […]
Well, I didn’t send it on Heartbreak Ridge yesterday due to high winds. In addition, life sure has been throwing me a lot of curve balls lately. Luckily I made solid contact with this pitch!!! 😀 Dynafit is no doubt one of the biggest names in the sport of backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering, and […]
I was pretty psyched when I got the call that a couple boxes from Black Diamond arrived for me at the shop yesterday. I was anticipating a big square box, full of packs and crampons and such, and I bounced off the wall when I saw a ski box tucked in the corner. I wasn’t […]
Adjustable in every angle You may remember me experimenting with some video last spring and some of you recommended me getting some sort of helmet cam. Well, I’ve been thinking about investing in one and I saw the perfect setup while I was down at the Outdoor Retailer. I don’t want to spend a […]
Randosteve with BD Seracs below Teewinot’s Crooked Thumb Couloir, circa 1999 One of the reasons I started this website was to have something to show potential sponsors the stuff I was doing, in hopes solidifying a relationship with some of the leaders in backcountry skiing and ski-mountaineering. Over the past few months I have been […]