Pictures from Havell Travels
This website will be down for a few days for some updates…in the interim, here are some fun trips and web places to ponder:
The team of Jaime Laidlaw, Kip Garre, Devon O’neil, and Kristoffer Erickson are in the Saipal region of Nepal to attempt to climb and ski previously unexplored peaks. They won’t be connected [...]
This vimeo video hit me hard on Friday, and came very close to home. It was strangely therapeutic to watch, in being so eerily familiar, giving the sense of confronting demons. For anyone who has gone through a similar experience, this headcam footage captures it all.
I think a lot can be gained from listening to their pre-game conversation, and also appreciating [...]
In honor of the flying frenchman’s bday today, here is a youtube short clip of our adventure from his ski base off Ajax Peak in Telluride’s box canyon this past spring 2009. Matthias named the cliff in honor of the late, very great Shane McConkey.
Usually when I am with Matthias, I end up jumping out of or off [...]
Canadian adventurers Marcus Waring and his partner Ryan, whom we met on Denali in June, not only skied the Rescue Gully successfully from 17 camp, but then moved on to a first descent on Mt Foraker. Their feat is extremely impressive in a world that is stocked with route information and they went where there [...]
It was a fun few days in SLC. Amazing how much you can get done when you are in a city, but next to the mountains. Went for a great hike with my buddy Beck up Snowbird- roughly 3,000 vert- with a beautiful trail system. The hike was the biggest I have done with my knee (at [...]
www.salomonfreeski.com
Just wrapped up two days of great meetings with the Salomon Freeski crew in Ogden, UT. Salomon’s vision for the coming years is exciting, and it was a great time getting to know everyone and talking about what we all love to talk about, skiing and gear.
Personally, I can’t wait to get on the Sentinel ski- [...]
Amazing weekend in Aspen with Franti, Fergie and friends. Great music in the mountains, perfect weather, and some nice times running into friends- Tom Zuccareno, Allison Kreutzen & Cary Jobe, Chris Davenport, Wendy Fisher, Kenny Rosen, Emily Dressler and others. Also saw my surgeon- Dr Singh- at the Saturday show, who gave me the tentative ok for [...]
After a fun breakfast with my climbing girls- Mel, Katja, & Leah- on Sunday, we reached a decision to do a short trip to Wyoming’s Ten Sleep Canyon in late September. This is a relatively unpopulated area, with a lot of sport climbing- not my favorite but better for a recovering knee then the tweaking of trad.
The guidebook to [...]