Leo Lloyd with Rigging for Rescue, based in Ouray, CO, is an amazing instructor. With a boat load of knowledge, and an excellent teaching style, his students emerge from these courses better prepared and trained for dealing with rescue loads in tough environments.
Tuesday through Thursday this past week, Tor Anderson, Con Severis, Todd Rector and [...]

Telluride Mountainfilm weekend has arrived.
For more information: www.telluridemountainfilm.org
Just the tip of the Mountainfilm iceberg:
A film in which a few of us participated last spring 2008, is premiering on Sunday night in downtown Telluride. Formerly known as “Life in the No Fall Zone“, it has been renamed to “The Edge of Telluride“.
It plays at the Sheridan [...]

HuckNroll.com is open for business
New mountain bike store flips off the establishment and finally takes specialty mountain bike sales online.
                  
PARK CITY, UTAH (May 21, 2009) — Starting today, there’s HuckNroll.com, a store dedicated to dirt riders and our take-your-personal-best-and-shove-it-up-your-ass, meat-hucking, scab-picking habit known as mountain biking.
 
HuckNroll.com is an online mountain bike shop. You [...]

It’s nice to get back to the rock. On Wednesday, friend and AMGA guide, Con Severis and I headed up to Cracked Canyon, Ophir, where we both got in some good routes, and I got back into the rhythm while leading a couple of nice moderates..so as to roll into Friday, when Con and I then headed over [...]

After a successful weekend skiing three 14ers in the Creststones, Karen and I have now both skied ten 14ers. Our list: Wilson Pk, Mt Wilson, El Diente, Sneffels, Quandary, Elbert, La Plata, Creststone Needle, Creststone Peak, Humboldt.
Friday afternoon I made the 5 hour drive to Westcliffe with my peak skiing wingwoman Karen Kingsley, encountering a few delays along the way including [...]

The Mountain wins again…Friday morning I flew to Seattle, where Matthias Giraud picked me up for our attempt to climb and ski Rainier (14,411ft). Matthias was planning to do a ski base jump off a cliff on our route, if conditions permitted.
The weather in Washington is very tempermental. We checked numerous weather sites and forecasts [...]