Athlete Reports
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. [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · December 27th, 2010 · Tags: aj linnell, Backcountry, backcountry snowboarding, snowboarding, tetons · No comments yet
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 [...]
Posted by Brad Foley · December 22nd, 2010 · Tags: brad foley photography, cat skiing, chason russell, CS Irwin, powder, Scott Kennett, Wagner Skis, winterstick · Read 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by Chason Russell · December 3rd, 2010 · · Read 1 Comment
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 [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · June 5th, 2010 · Tags: aj linnell, backcountry snowboarding, snowboard mountaineering, tetons, Wagner Custom · Read 1 Comment
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 [...]
Posted by Brad Foley · April 25th, 2010 · Tags: brad foley photography, Desert · No comments yet