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Blog Posts for 2008

Successful Denali Snowboard Descent

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I woke up on the morning of June 14th to temperatures well below zero, with frost caked around the hood of my sleeping bag and a layer of the stuff coating the inside of the tent walls. Every move brought a shower down from the ceiling. I could hear Jaime firing up the stoves in [...]

Summer Skiing in Gold King Basin

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

On June 26th my bud Grayson and I decided to go search for some snow and landed on climbing the main chute in Gold King Basin. The main “problem” we ran into actually accrued the night before when at around 1:00 in the morning we decided to go the next day. We were [...]

Preparing for Snowboard Descent of Denali

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

So I’m just back from guiding a successful Denali climb with a great friend of mine, recuperating and trying to regain some of the weight that I lost while we were stuck in a storm at high camp for a week. (17,200′) Hanging around in Palmer at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) [...]

South Teton Snowboard Descent

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Skinning away from the truck at 4:30 in the morning can be rough. It’s dark. It’s cold. And it’s 4:30 for god’s sake. Doubts creep in, and I find it easy to invent reasons we should turn around, get back in the truck, and make the hour drive back to my warm bed where my [...]

Wagner Custom Factory Video

Monday, April 7th, 2008