Skiing the Bomber Traverse: Part 2
This is the second part of a two-parter on our trip to the Talkeetna Mountains. If you missed the first part, check it out here. For our map/beta of the route, click here (pdf). The ski down from backdoor…
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Skiing the Bomber Traverse: Part 1
I first learned about the Bomber Traverse while doing something that I often do: reading a guidebook while sitting on the toilet. Some time ago, I heard about The Alaska Factor by Joe Stock, and I’d ordered it on impulse. Then, in…
30th Birthday Mt Hood Circumnavigation
I’m still wading through all of the photos and video from our Alaska trip. It’s making my computer crash just to think about it. In the meantime, and more importantly, my fiancé and chief adventure partner Taylor turned 30 this…
SkiMo Race Report: The Father Dyer Postal Route
A century and a half ago, a minister by the name of John Lewis Dyer journeyed over 1000 miles by horse and by foot from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. His mission was to teach the gospel to…
Mt Adams Skiing, the Long Way
I’ve been really frustrated with skiing in the Pacific Northwest this year. A big part of my frustration comes from living in Portland, which is not somewhere that you live if skiing is a priority for you. The weather has…
Three Fingered Jack Backcountry Skiing
This past weekend, a bit sad that we weren’t driving out to Colorado for the Grand Traverse, Taylor and I went looking for some new terrain in the Mt Jefferson wilderness. Neither of us had ever been to the Three…
Southern Oregon Backcountry: Siskiyou Skiing
This weekend, Taylor and I headed South along I-5 to Southern Oregon aiming to sample the Southern Oregon backcountry and ski a smaller cascades volcano, Mt McLoughlin. Unfortunately, with a busy week last week, Tay forgot to move her shovel…
DIY: Resizing Fixed-Length Ski Poles
I have a quick tech tip for you today. Fixed-length poles are becoming more popular for backcountry skiing because they’re stiffer and generally lighter than adjustable poles. They are, however, not adjustable. If you get too big a size, you’ll…
November in Gothic
On the second to last day of October I came across a set of bear tracks. My friend Richard and I had set out from Gothic on bikes and were six miles up valley when the snow became too deep…
Troll Hunting: Ski Touring in Iceland, Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of Ski Touring Iceland, you can find it here. After almost a week in Iceland and several days of skiing touring on the North coast of the island, we thought that we’d learned the tactics…