This past Saturday I headed up the Mirror Lake Highway with friends Jim Holland and Alex Stoy to slide on snow. As typical when we get together the adventure was a bit more than just sliding on snow. After ascending the NW Coulior of Reids Peak we ditched the skis and climbed to the summit […]
It’s no secret that I love to ski. But I really love to ski when the season is winding down. Attention turns to biking and running, golf courses open up around the valley, lifts run nearly empty if they run at all, walk on trams at the bird until Memorial Day, backcountry shots that are […]
I’ve had 3 amazing resort days this past week skiing at Snowbasin with my oldest son McKinley, Park City Mountain Resort yesterday and then today at Deer Valley with Jason Mitchell, my good friend who owns FeedTheHabit.com. But Wednesday morning backcountry skiing, which is the primary content in the video below, is evidence of why […]
After much prodding from my wife I pealed away from the computer for some needed ski touring. The road over Wolf Creek Pass is still open so I took advantage of the easy access and solitude. The evidence is posted over at FeedTheHabit.com but here is some proof below of a great morning of skiing. […]
Disclaimer: Although this could be considered shamelss self promotion it is in fact shameless self promotion…as well as promoting my friend Adam Barker who is a very talented photographer If you’re looking for something that the skier in your life will be stoked on and will appreciate for years to come look no further. This […]
My ski season is finally over. I blogged about it on the Backcountry.com Blog that I run. The camera is still broken so I had to “borrow” some images from SummitPost.org. With skiing on July 6 it meant that my 2006-2007 ski season was 9 months and 2 weeks long, or 307 days long. Not […]
It snowed again, so like any self respecting backcountry skier I put my bike away for a few days and went out to ski some powder which promptly turned into another fine corn harvest. With the road to Wolf Creek Pass open for the summer, I took advantage of this easy access location just 20 […]
Doug Coombs was an icon for me and many others that grew up skiing in the late 80’s and 90’s and for whom skiing steep terrain became a passion. I don’t really categorize what I do as “Big Mountain Skiing”, I just ski. A lot of the time I search out steep terrain, rock lined […]
My good friend Josh moved to Ohio. It was two years ago that we first started to dawn patrol together, right after I started working at Backcountry.com. I found in him a like minded backcountry skier – one of (semi) conservative lines, a knack for adventure, nary a phobia of early morning starts and a […]
I’m always up for a ski. Unfortunately, or fortunately, my friends know this. Derek called and wanted to do a dawn patrol of something up Little Cottonwood Canyon. After a couple of south facing suggestions we settled on hitting Mount Superior which rises nearly 3000′ from the canyon highway, right across from Snowbird Ski Resort. […]
