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Avalanche Canyon Tour

Monday, December 27th, 2010

My wife and I don’t celebrate Christmas, so with high pressure sitting over the Tetons it seemed like the perfect day to explore the alpine with my buddy John Fitzgerald.  The thermometer in his car registered -5 fahrenheit when we got out to start skinning at 5:30am, with starry skies and a just-past-full moon overhead. [...]

Skiing at CS Irwin Lodge

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Skiing with the athletes and crew from Wagner Custom, some long time ski partners and some new friends,  is always a good time.  So when Pete called and ask if I wanted to go cat skiing at CS Irwin Lodge I couldn’t say yes fast enough.  Driving up from Telluride to Crested Butte the night [...]

First Turns

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

A lot leads up to the first turns of the season. The long anticipated gathering of the ski equipment seems to happen subconsciously. It’s almost an unbearable wait between when the snow makes its first appearance on the peaks, until the day when the blanket reaches well below tree-line and there is actually enough coverage [...]

’09-’10 Season Photo Grab Bag

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

I was hoping to get up the Grand again this spring, and maybe a few of its neighbors in the Tetons, but our interminably rainy weather is putting a stopper on those plans.  So, before heading to Alaska to guide another Denali climb I thought I’d look back at a highly varied but pretty successful [...]

The mountains of the desert

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

•April 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment On our way to the Salt river in central east Arizona, Josh and I met up with photographer Whit Richardson, and two friends from home in Telluride, Miriam and Emily for an all time ski decent of mount Peale in the [...]