Athlete Reports
Monday, February 14th, 2011
With a week of warmer weather and a settling snow pack I spent the time skinning, and getting sunburn in the mountains around Telluride. Starting early on saturday with bacon and coffee I met Brian C. and Dustin H. with intentions of skiing the Silver chute off Silver Mt. Skinning up the north side of Lena basin I had my doubts of getting around the south side of the peak due to the quickly warming sun. Summiting Silver I decided to ski back into Lena basin in the cold north facing powder, Brian and Dustin continuing on making the exposed and scary traverse to the entrance of the Silver. Back in the Bear Creek basin I met up with Jim C on his way to ski the north side of K 12, I joined in.
Posted by Brad Foley · February 14th, 2011 · Tags: brad foley, chason russell, colorado skiing, custom skis, San Juan Mountains, Skis, telluride backcountry · No comments yet
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
A slideshow of some of my favorite images taken over the last year skiing around the beautiful San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. Enjoy click the link to view slideshow http://vimeo.com/18367226
Posted by Brad Foley · January 13th, 2011 · Tags: brad foley photography, chason russell, custom skis, powder, San Juan Mountains, ski touring, Telluride, Wagner Custom · No comments yet
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
