Coalpit #4
Getting to work by 2 pm is a cinch. Getting to work by noon, after a ski mission, well, that get’s a little tighter. After working until 2 am the night before, I met Noah at the Big Cottonwood park…
Olympus – Lower Zeus Couloir
After a few night shifts, I was tired of seeing everyone gloat across the internet about the ski conditions. Sleep or lack thereof be damned, I was determined to get in a few turns. Snow levels had dropped to the…
Coalpit Headwall
In a rare period of mid-winter low avalanche danger, I phone up Noah and Nico to take advantage of the conditions and get on one of the big Wasatch lines that I’ve long eyed from the valley, the Coalpit headwall.…
Sled Assisted in the Western Uintas
This past week on Thursday I finally cashed in on a creative Christmas present from Taylor: a one-day sled rental. Maybe tired of hearing me say, over and over again, that the only way to tour in the Uintas is…
Memorial Couloirs
After a few days of work and only pre-dawn skinning up the piste at Park City, I engineered a partial morning off and wanted to go ski something steep and skinny. While out at dinner eating sushi, I texted under…
Toledo Morning
One of the perks of working up at the Alta Ski Clinic is that it’s just across the street from some really great ski touring terrain. Usually, the South facing slopes above Alta get skied during and immediately after a…
Backcountry Shit Kit
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what emergency gear is worth carrying in the backcountry. It all began while I was on a hut trip and my binding screws decided to start backing out… it was only at that…
The Seagull
As an ER resident, I get to do a lot of cool things like fly in helicopters with Airmed and go riding around in firetrucks. I don’t know why anyone would do any other kind of medicine. I’d be ok…
Reliable Race Skins: Added Glue, Added Security
The other day, a friend asked me if I had any experience putting glue on skins. He asked as if it was some complex procedure, or a potentially bad idea. I would like to tell you what I told him;…
Ringing in 2019 at the Opus Hut
This Fall, Taylor discovered something that we’d been looking for but had yet to find: a full-service European-style hut in the United States. Called the Opus hut, it sits at 11,500′ on Ophir pass in the Red Mountain Pass backcountry…