Trip Reports By Region
Since I had gotten some good turns in the Cave Couloir last Thursday, I was jonesing to ski much more that before and I lured Brian Harder out to join me for another go at October hunting. To me, the most logical next place to scout for turns was the Middle Teton Glacier. Its north […]
Sunrise on the Grand and Teewinot. While lots of people are out hunting to get their elk, deer or bison, I seem to be one of the few hunting for October skiing. New moisture in the Teton area has been pretty light over the past week, but it sure would be nice to see some […]
Though it’s just a start, I feel a lot better after today’s weather.
Randosteve sets up for September turns on the North Face of Spaulding Peak. Table Mountain and it’s steep East Face in the background. After a long and busy summer, I finally made a go for my September turns with Reed in the South Fork of Garnet Canyon on September 30th, thus marking the official success […]
Randosteve gets a facial during the early days on Wimpys. Maybe it’s the gear, the skill level, the media, or the now easily accessible backcountry terrain out of ski resort gates, but it seems like today, many skiers are forgoing the natural progression of steeping it up from easier to gnarlier lines. Instead, going right […]
The Swedish extreme skier Fredrik Ericsson is trying to become the first person to ski the three highest mountains in the world. The three year project starts this week when Fredrik goes to the Himalayas to attempt ski the third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga (8586m). Fredrik’s partner on the expedition is Norwegian extreme skier Jörgen Aamot. […]
The East Ridge of Wolf’s Head rises above the Cirque of the Towers. After seeing the East Ridge of Wolf’s Head route from the summit of Pingora, Randokitty and I decided to haul some bigger backpacks loaded for a couple nights in the Cirque of the Towers and give it a try. It is definitely […]
I was pretty psyched about bagging Pingora last week in just under 13 hours CTC (car-to-car) and it was my first time on that particular summit. Here is a run down and some photos from the trip. Though the Cirque of the Towers looks rather benign from the view from Pinedale, it ‘s got to […]
Went on a solo mission up to the Cave Couloir in Garnet Canyon to get my August turns in last week. The skiing was actually pretty challenging with lots of runnels. There was just over 1000′ of skiing, which I think is the accepted amount of vertical needed to claim ‘turns-all-year’. The skiing sucked, but […]
Finally got to the summit of Pingora in the Cirque of the Towers of the Wind River Range yesterday. Randokitty and I did it in a day, car to car…12:55, up the South Buttress route, 5.6/8, III (and roughly 20 miles round trip). More later!
For all you endurance geeks out there (myself included), Matt Hart has set the standard for a new trail running challenge in Grand Teton National Park. Seems just running up the Grand Teton just isn’t enough anymore. I recently moved here to Driggs from Seattle to work with DreamChasers and ultra legend, Lisa Smith-Batchen. I’m […]
Rappelling into Once is Enough I got an email with some photos from Jackson snowboarder, Randy Shacket, from a summer adventure riding the OB at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in July. Some folks just never give up! As I stood on the service road, a bead of sweat dripped into my eye. Down to […]
Rockslide on the Sea to Sky Highway connecting Vancouver to Whistler/Blackcomb, where they have been doing massive improvements for the upcoming winter Olympics in 2010 Click here for more on the rockslide.
Well, I finally think I have this VIMEO thing figured out and I’m pretty sure it is working now with most versions of Internet Explorer (not sure about Safari), though it does show an error in the code somewhere. I recommend Firefox for your browser. While jonesing for winter recently, I’ve been spending time uploading […]