Tag: backcountry skiing
Porter Fork to Mill B, plus Waldo Couloir
Thursdays are my whole days off this month, so every Thursday I’ve been looking for long days out. With less snow in the forecast,...
Mt Aire East Face
January for me means time on the trauma service at the other big hospital in town besides the University, Intermountain Medical Center. A...
Goodbye, 2019
2019 was a hell of a year. While there are a lot of things that make me want to give 2019 the finger, like an orange-haired clown who...
Apollo Couloir
I’m skipping a TR that I should have written first, but this quick mission is fresh on my mind. Our education morning was cancelled...
Dromedary Peak, North Ridge
I haven’t figured out how to ski Spring snow in the Wasatch. In the Pacific Northwest, spring skiing is easy. The spring season is...
Spring Transition
It is now spring. Earl, the god of weather, announced this 3 days ago with a bout of rain. Thankfully, Taylor and I managed to sneak in...
Cardiff Ridge Chutelets
When life gives you lemons, and you’ve been starving for lemons, you squeeze the *$^% out of them. I had a day off (scarce these...
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...
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...
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....