AJ Linnell's Blog Posts
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
I just spent 10 days in the Tetons teaching an instructor training seminar for NOLS, doing some really amazing riding while training a new generation of backcountry snowboarding instructors. With all the time we spent skinning and riding, my trainees were pretty impressed at the performance of my Wagner Custom approach skis, and how [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · February 14th, 2009 · Tags: Add new tag, backcountry snowboarding, Snowboard, snowboard mountaineering, snowboard safety · Read 6 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · July 31st, 2008 · · Read 13 Comments
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) [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · June 1st, 2008 · · Read 5 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · April 30th, 2008 · · No comments yet