Fun weekend in Telluride for a lot of folks- great snow, good weather, and good stable conditions.
Saturday, I guided an Argentinean ESPN crew out our backcountry gate and into Bear Creek, along with Telluride snowboarder talent (another) Jesse James. We spent a lot of hours back there trying to find the right angles, aspects, and hucks [...]

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Crested Butte was host to one of the big Telemark Freeski comps this past weekend, and then Skiing Magazine’s backcountry ski test this past Monday and Tuesday.
It was a fun two days trying out next year’s AT backcountry ski selection, skiing with old friends, making new friends and enjoying the mountain.
The regular Resort Ski Test for Skiing [...]

Yesterday, Con Severis, Erik Larson, and “Cooter” from ski patrol, skied a newish route they dubbed “the dukes of hazard”, in honor of Cooter being a part of the team. This morning, Con called me to go do the direct route which we had thought might be a first descent and later found out was [...]

Con Severis, Lance Waring, Todd Rector, and I headed out the gate yesterday morning for another couloir adventure. We split in to two groups for speed and safetly reasons; and so, Todd and I split off from the other two on the lower ridge and headed towards the ultra classic “Heavens Eleven”.
Todd and I are [...]

Arriving back to Telluride around 12:30am last night from BC, I wasn’t sure if Tuesday would have skiing in the line-up for me.
My friend and new 2009 ski partner Jesse James McTigue had called about meeting up. We decided to try a couloir on the Wasatch Ridge- making our final choice on the chair ride up- as the [...]

Red Mountain British Columbia was host to the first annual event dedicated to “the gathering” of ski legends from over the years, as well as serving as a reunion of Verbier friends and others that contributed to the early freeski movement. The brainchild of Albert Liu and Bernie Bernthal, this will undoubtedly will grow as a [...]

It is definitely starting to feel like too much talking and not enough walking, as I enter the world of the information superhighway technology dragging my feet.
Ol’ Jonny A at Backcountry.com has me blogging, utubing, twittering, photoging, avant marketing, and who knows what else to come.
Since it’s been awhile since I’ve been in school, it’s [...]

Something has definitely gotten lost in translation…access gate does not mean you are still skiing the resort.
This morning, Jesse & Jake McTigue, & their pal Andy, and I headed out the backcountry gate off the top of Gold Hill to ski a lap in “Deep & Dangerous”, aka D&D, in Bear Creek.
The wind has been whipping in [...]

As promised, here’s some photos and video of a climb and ski of the “Classic Y” in the Wasatch range that Chris Davenport and I did on Sunday, March 1st. The skiing adventure got started after a fabulous brunch at the Porcupine, celebrating Jonny A’s 40th bday. The below video is of Dav ripping it half [...]