I’m in a dark place at the moment. “Rotationally, not psychologically”. Residency has ups and downs and the schedule factors into that fluctuation significantly. This month I’m on trauma surgery– it has its perks, like taking care of really sick…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…