It took twenty years for the line on Nant Blanc in the Chamonix-Argentiere region of the French Alps to come into shape, but on June 19, 2008 it was finally in…and this time without a rope. By choosing a slight variation to the route skied previously by John Mark Bovin and snowboarded by Marco Siffredi […]
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I think I’m going to try for ‘turns all year’ this year (my first time) and on July 4th, my friend Chris and I hiked up to Buck Mountain to ski its East Face, scoring a 3000′ descent of decent summer snow. I’m not totally sure why, but I’m still accustomed to the early bird […]
So fellow skiers. How do you claim a FD (first descent…bra) without getting chastised by the greater backcountry community when some lurker comes out of the snowpack and says he skied the line back in 2002? Good question. Now first off, please know that this isn’t a prelude into claiming some sick new line on […]
Cruising through the Jackson Town Square Well maybe not just yet, but I didn’t ski at all this weekend, though I did try. On Friday afternoon, I went out on Jackson Lake to camp and make an attempt on the Sickle Couloir on Mount Moran. Though the first descentionists (Jeff Roads/Cory Flandrow) succeeded in skiing […]
Randosteve watches Reed make his final few steps to the summit of the Enclosure. Photo: Jason Kartchner, from the Owen/Spalding Route of the Grand Teton. On Saturday, I got out with Reed to ski the Enclosure…which is the peak/shoulder to the west of the Grand Teton. I’ve never been on top of the Enclosure before […]
Jimmy Chin’s Trifecta Route. Click here for larger image. Well, on occasions I do, but when I hear about days like the following, I feel like I’m slow as molasses. Photographer, skier/climber and The North Face sponsored athlete, Jimmy Chin shot me an email last week breaking down his recent (last Friday) light and fast […]
The Glacier Route on the Middle Teton…as skied on June 19,2008. The last time I skied this route was in March of 2004. Picture taken from Disappointment Peak on December 24, 2005. Enjoy the video!
Randosteve skis the Glacier Route on the Middle Teton on Thursday. Click here for larger image. I’ve been getting a lot of email’s lately of people asking me how I think the skiing is right now…if the snow is freezing at night…and about specific route conditions in general. Though I had heard reports of great […]
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Tim Weydeveld and Steve Romeo skin towards the North Face of Gannett Peak on the Gannett Glacier. It pretty much snowed all night and we spent a lot of time banging on the sides of the Megamid and packing the snow around it’s sides so we wouldn’t be engulfed as the snow piled up it’s […]
Really nothing special in this video. It’s just amazing that there is still such great skiing to be had on Teton Pass all the way to the parking lot and I wanted to document it. Part 3 from Gannett tomorrow. Ciao for now!
Randosteve summits Gannett Peak When I’m in the mountains, it’s one of the few times I rely on my alarm to wake me up. Needless to say, it wasn’t until 2:40 am, and the second time my Suunto CORE beeped, that I arose out of a restful sleep. I could hear the winds ripping up […]
Jeramie Prine splitboards through Ink Wells on the way to Gannett Peak. When WyomingSplitride from Landiego (aka, Jeramie Prine from Lander) invited me to join him and his cousins to ski Gannett Peak (highest in Wyoming) in the Wind River Range, I jumped at the chance. For the past 2-3 years now, Gannett has been […]
Excessive frosting is a good thing! How I’m spending my birthday today. Wake up at 3:30 am. Put finishing touches on backpack and make quad, Cafe Rando. 4:30, drive 2.5 hours to Crowheart, WY. Hook up with Jeramie Prine (and friends) from Lander. Pay an exorberant amount of money to access a trailhead on reservation […]
Went for a ski on Jackson Peak this morning. Mostly to see what’s been going on with the precipitation we’ve been getting the past few days. Weather looked okay as we drove out on the ultra-green Elk Refuge. It seemed as though the clouds were lifting as we got views of the North Face and […]
I put this video trip report together from my descent of the Koven Couloir last week. It’s got some decent steeps footage and includes some fun Whippeted sidestepping. Here’s a little more info on the slab I mention about…if you missed it last week.
Buckingham Palace Peak After my little scare in the Koven Couloir last Thursday, the high temp predicted for the following days and reading about the big slides happening in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to turn things down a little bit on Friday and try and ski a south facing couloir on McKlintok Peak…located near […]
Last weekend I got out into Cascade Canyon with Reed Finlay and Brian Harder. We ventured into the Teewinot/Owen Cirque to ski a line I’ve heard referred to as Tallboy Couloir. If you know it as something else…feel free to share. The couloir kinda starts from the col between the East Prong and the next […]
Small slab release at the top of the Koven Couloir As Brian Harder and I approached the top of the Koven Couloir and the Koven Col today, the snow changed dramatically. A small slab had formed on the looker’s left. A cornice blocked easy access directly above. Randosteve…”Man…it sure is getting slabby up here” Brain […]