El Diente Peak- 14,159ft  (#24)
Northeast face ski-  L Dawson descent rated “extreme” (p166)
With a 3:15am alarm on Wednesday morning, I got ready, walked Scout, and then picked up strongman nice guy Lance Waring at ten of 4 to drive over to Con Severis’s condo. From there, we loaded into Con’s truck and with some pro driving [...]

A lucky weather week in Colorado for Karen Kingsley and I. After Monday’s Wilson Peak climb and ski with the fellas, Karen and I headed out on our 14er road trip on Wednesday afternoon. We kept the plan simple and tried to go with the flow of conditions and temps.
First up, Mount Quandary on Thursday [...]

At 5am Monday April 20th, Chason Russell, Brad Zelowski, and I met just outside of Telluride to drive over to Silver Pick road for the start of our day’s adventure. Matt Steen, Garen “Mango”, and Pete Bahl were also planning to ski the peak but left about an hour before us. Our goal was to [...]

Located at about 11,700ft near Ophir Pass in the San Juan Mtns, the Kingsley’s hut sits perched high up beneath Lookout peak and surrounded by other majestics in the area.
After probably a year of attempting to help out Bob & Karen Kingsley with their hut building endeavors, yesterday, I finally joined Bob in the 3.5 mile ski tour [...]

With about 3 feet of powder falling in two days on Silverton Mountain, Jen Brill’s annual “Sisters in the Steeps” event enjoyed tremendous conditions.
With female skiers, writers, boarders, business owners, and enthusiasts gathered together into the weekend, the skiing was fast and fun, and the round table discussions were positive and informational.
The opening slideshow presented by [...]

Last week, I officially joined the Garmont-Bridgedale-Lifelink team, and was very excited to give the new gear a go in the field. I have been skiing a modified Adrenalin (with an Endorphin tongue) for a couple of years now and have heard glowing reviews of the Radium.
Early this morning, Dan Hehir, Dave Marsinowski and I toured [...]

Another wild week of life adventures in Telluride. Last week, we finally got some of the snow that seems to have been on lock down in the Salt Lake area. With great ski partners ranging from Bill Allen, Karen Kingsley, Dan & Sue Hehir, Tony Jakob, Todd Hermann, the McTigues and others, we did some great laps all [...]