Laramie Have You Ever Listened To Ray Charles There's a sharp bend on the highway between Dubois and Jackson where, in the winter, I like to stop and take a pee. It's to commemorate the first occasion when I did so:
skiing Winter Is Dead - Long Live Winter! Clues pointing to the corpse of winter: I unsubscribed from snow (avalanche) conditions in the Teton area today. Rumors say Thomas and Brittani are heading back to Boulder within the week. More rumors
backcountry The Loop Drainage After a day off following our epic on Green, Nathaniel, Jenn, Maciej and I skinned back up the Loop drainage. Avalanche dangers had risen substantially over the last two days - as expected
skiing Mt. Green Man, what a day. A little fuckup here: Put us here: Where we wanted to be, just not when It was beautiful, and it was - as I lay safe in bed later
skiing The Prime Minister and the Pollock "That's a long hike for people who don't." Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Pow Maciej and Jenn came to Jackson so as to whisk me away to Golden, BC, from which
shadow peak Back to Shadow Peak Mr. Stech invited me out for a Sunday tour to Shadow Peak with Jake, Katie and Mike. It was neat getting back out there; I first skied Shadow almost exactly two years back
skiing Resort Skiing Teton Pass As we drove up the pass on New Years Eve, I told Reid "I'm not going to have a single day at a resort this year," with not a little bit
Climbing Holiday Fun South of the Pass On a tracked out Sunday, Trudeau and I had a day that consisted more-or-less of skinning and exploring. Our skis took us to Yo-yo Bowl, Thanksgiving Bowl, and an
teton pass Turns Two, Three, Four, and Five... Maybe counting after "one" is unnecessary. These next four days just came at me so damn quick though. Thank god it's the weekend and I get to give my quads a
backcountry A Week of Juneuary If I ever made a skintrack like this, you'd tell me, right? If you ever made a skintrack this bipolar, I'd be seriously concerned for you. Cover: Driving over Teton Pass Tuesday morning,
backcountry Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated New Years happened, then I lost a week to a cold, got in an hour of skiing and a few hours of bouldering on the weekend, then went down for a second week
backcountry Seasons Change Cover: The trees over Persephone, taken while enjoying coffee with Matt one afternoon Green to Gold Snow King after a week of rain, from my friend's balcony. Nothing says "Fall" like
Adventures Shadow Peak The last of the New Years series. I worked two days, and then Saturday got together with Martin and Andrea to do Shadow Peak. I took quite a few photos on the way
Adventures Across From Two Oceans Disappointment Peak was swiftly followed up with more mellow slopes in Togwotee Pass, the mountain pass between the Tetons and Lander. Andrea, Martin and I first skied the area about two weeks before,
Adventures Disappointment Peak Andrea beat me to the punch, but I've at last had a Saturday at home to edit photos. Wahoo! The crew was Andrea, Martin, Ben (the guy with the beard), Ben (the guy
Adventures Hungry Hen at Disappointment Peak Andrea has put up another report of fun snow days, and this time around with a bunch of my pictures. Check out her chronicling of Disappointment Peak. Well down on the valley floor,
Adventures Park View Spring Skiing Went for a bit of spring skiing just recently down in Park View with Maciej and Andrea. She was nice enough to write up a report on it with some of the great
Adventures Welcome Home I spent last weekend at a hut up in Summit County called Polar Star Inn. I had been pretty frustrated with my boarding out there; my turns didn't quite feel strong enough or
Adventures Winter is Coming (Somewhere) Maciej and I went for a morning of backcountry last Thursday up on top of Medicine Bow Peak and got in a good four laps, making it home in time to shower and
Adventures Kurikoma - The Final Backcountry Trip As alluded to here, my last weekend was my final backcountry expedition for the wonderful wintry Japan season of 2011-2012. The trip took us (where "us" is defined as myself, Kanji,
Adventures 八甲田 - Hakkouda Like I said, this last weekend was an overnight backcountry trip up in Aomori-ken, the northernmost prefecture on 本州 (honshyu), the main island of Japan. I'm going to relate the story of the
Adventures Another weekend, another ski trip My last post started with the line "Maybe I do this too much". In fact, I realized that I've been getting out every weekend, and have a couple more planned. How
Adventures Ubagatake Another weekend, another backcountry trip. The crew was mostly familiar faces: Kazumi, Zunko, Kanji, Satoko (from the first trip) and one new face, Jun. Throw me in the mix and you'll come up
Adventures Backcountry Japan Ski Video (Gassan) Kazumi-san linked me the video she put together from our first backcountry trip for the year, so I'm throwing it here to keep it in mind. Something in the future I might update
Adventures The Big Backcountry Once again thanks to Takeuchi-san, I hit Yamagata's backcountry on the 15th. The size of the group got a little out of control on this one though... The main thing I remember from