Pictures from Havell Travels
The window for couloir skiing briefly opened again today with a few groups headed for some classic routes first thing this morning from our backcountry gate at the top of Gold Hill. Plans & people changed and then came together at the last minute, and Josh Geeter and I skinned and booted back up Silver Mountain to [...]
With a morning couloir attempt thwarted by seriously inclement weather (rain in town, but snow up high), Dan Hehir, Rob Klimek, Matt Steen, Mason Rich and I met at the New Sheridan “Parlor” for coffee and breakfast…a luxury that is rarely afforded to us with our work/ski schedules. After a leisurely time hanging [...]
Our plans are made, tickets booked, and permits in order…four of us ladies here in the Telluride area are headed to Denali, AK in early June to climb and ski the peak. The team includes Karen Kingsley, Sonja Nelson, Kim Grant and myself. These women are remarkable talents, and individually strong skiers and mountain people. Karen [...]
Sometimes you just gotta go back to the well. In this case, it would be the Northwest aspect of Eldorado in Ophir. Thursday, I went up for a quick solo tour/lunch break and bumped into world-class alpinist and (IFMGA/UIAGM) guide Vince Anderson and his client & friend, “Bull”. The fellas let me join them and Eldo [...]