It was another great weekend at the winter trade show in Salt Lake City. As always, it’s so nice to meet new and interesting people in this industry, have some fun dinners, coffees, and beers with the likes of Lou Dawson, Chopper, Berne Broudy, Mark Fisher, Joe Josephson along with many more, learn about new product, and line [...]

For the latest word on Salomon’s new line-up for next fall, here’s a quick blog and photos from Skiing Magazine’s own Mark Lesh:

Field Test: Salomon Quest 12 Boots
Salomon is unveiling a new line of high-performance all-mountain freeski boots that will be available to the public in the 2010/11 season. We got to take them out [...]

Another snowless week in January left a few us adventuring for options. Dr Dan Hehir and I headed over to Ouray for some ice climbing (see map above) and discovered some really fun routes on which to play and practice.
Saturday was going to be another ice day but the following SAR call came in and [...]

Just some quick photos from a fun ski tour yesterday up Yellow Mountain above Trout Lake with the Ophir slayer ski posse- Dan Hehir, Haimay Palmer, and Dylan Sloan. We found some great snow, some variable snow, fun couloirs, and all on a beautiful, warm day. Haimay and I skied the notch to the right [...]

A fun week in the San Juans…some good ski tours in Ophir and Bear Creek, and then an exciting weekend event just over the hills in Ouray. A group of us drove over to enjoy various aspects of the 2010 Ice Festival these past few days with great slideshows, impressive competition performances, an excellent super hero dance party, [...]

The San Juan mountains, so far this season, are clocking in just above average on snowfall..and that means that we are back to our true Continental snowpack. Our backcountry is weak and tender, and so it has made for a very unpredictable touring experience at this stage of our winter.
So, my time of late has been [...]