I am excited to announce this project, which will be ongoing over the course of the next few weeks, published in digestible parts. I hope to produce a resource that’s valuable to you, whether you’re new to ski-touring or a backcountry master.…
I’ve skied for around 20 years now. My first pair of skis, Salomon X-Screams, are the sort of ski that’s now being turned into fences and benches in ski towns around the US. Since that pair, I’ve cycled through many…
Backcountry transitions, meaning the transition from uphill to down or downhill to up, are a hidden source of massive time wasting. Don’t believe me? Maybe this sounds familiar: You and your friends arrive at a transition zone and slowly spread out to…
Some lines steal your imagination the first time that you see them. That’s what happened to me the first time that I saw Mt. Superior in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT, three or four years ago. At the time, the South…
You might thing that jumping off tall rocks on skis is not only dangerous, but stupid as well, given that there’s often other ways to the bottom of the rocks that don’t endanger one’s femurs. I’d have to agree with…
I wrote a long post about my friend’s recent and surprising suicide, but technology lost it and I can’t bring myself to write it all again. Just a few days ago, my grandfather also passed peacefully from this world, leaving…
I’ve lived in Salt Lake City for about a month now. This stay is the period on the end of a long and rambling sentence that tried to describe what I wanted from my life for the last several months…
“People may die in spite of me, but they’re sure as hell not going to die because of me. We live in a culture of try, ‘Good job. Good game champ. Great try’. That doesn’t work as a paramedic. You…