Tag: backcountry
East Face of Twin
Just a quick entry with some recent action. Took a visiting medical school friend Nick out for his first ever backcountry tour. It was a...
Kessler West Couloir
This year has just been so casually excellent. Great lines in good snow with reasonable safety has been the standard, with great coverage...
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,...
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...
Breaking the Curse: Mt Mcloughlin Ski Descent
Mt McLoughlin is an often forgotten volcano of the Cascades chain. Hidden in southern Oregon along the highway between the modest towns of...
Haute Route Part 1: Chamonix to Verbier
Our plan to ski the haute route was hatched casually. It’s easy to imagine success from half a world away, especially on a route...
Mt Adams Southwest Chutes Speed Lap
Earlier this season, Taylor and I walked a really long way to try to ski Mt Adams’ southwest chutes. Unfortunately, it wasn’t...
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...
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...
Free Range Skimo Race: 2nd Place
There aren’t that many skimo races in the Pacific Northwest, in part because the sport is only beginning to take root and in part...