My friend and fellow Backcountry.com team member, Don Bowie, just confirmed plans to attempt a winter ascent of Broad Peak. Leaving in just a few days, Don is back in Telluride preparing for his journey to Pakistan. See below for more info and to follow his action- www.donbowie.com. 
 http://k2climb.net/news.php?id=17771   from Explorer’s Web & K2climb.net:
Winter action ahead: [...]

 
Sunday was ladies day at the Pool Wall in Ouray, CO. With my two climbing wing women, Katja & Mel, we hit the sunny crag for some mid-afternoon sport climbing. Katja charged it, putting up numerous hard routes and firing all of them. Mel and I both led a moderate 10 and then we finished [...]

  
Back by popular demand, Babes in the Backcountry event “Sisters in the Steeps” will return to host, Silverton Mountain, in April 2009. Guide/Instructors will be Patti Banks and myself. Join us for a weekend of great adventure in the San Juans.
Visit:
www.babesinthebackcountry.com- Leslie Ross
www.silvertonmountain.com- Jen Brill
- Kim Havell

Staying light on Day 1 of ski season- a beautiful ski tour, albeit thin on the lowers, but an awesome quick 2 hour trip/lunch break in Waterfall Canyon in Ophir. The skin track was amazing, the exit good, and light fluffy powder turns up high were really fun!
On the way up, Con and I bumped into [...]

As we await our next storm in Telluride, Saturday turned into a sun soaked day in the high desert outside of the Naturita area in SW Colorado. A small group of us headed to the crag of Atomic Energy for some mixed pitch-sport and trad-day.
Photos above are of Katja Wichland and Winslow Scott making the most of [...]

I am excited and honored to share that I have just joined The North Face Field Team, and as grateful as I am for many wonderful years with Cloudveil, this is an incredible new path upon which to set forth. More updates to come from adventures in the new field team endeavors.
Kim Havell

It was anotherinspiring weekend inIndian Creek-warm &perfect weather, a great crew of friends, and some Halloweeninfluenced climbing.
Saturday morning our crew headed to the 2nd Meat Wall. We all got about six great pitches,as well assomestrong leads for everyone in the group. Jared did Tofu Crack at 5.10, Mel did a great corner crack at 5.10+, [...]