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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]