Archive for July, 2008

TR-The Chugach 2007

July 28, 2008

In the Spring of 2007 Darrell Finlayson and I had plans to fly to a very remote Alaskan range to spend a few weeks freezing and skiing. The weather had other plans for us and our pilot couldn’t fly us in. I learned it’s always good to have a plan B and C when in [...]

Wasatch Supercoaster

July 14, 2008

Winter is over, but there are still many trips, vids, and pics that I’m planning on dragging out of the past to post. We’ll begin with this trip report from a few years ago. I wasn’t blogging then and wanted to go light, so no photo’s were taken. I was able to scrounge up some [...]

BRIGHTON SHORTCUT?

July 9, 2008

I decided to go for a hike at Brighton last week. In an effort to conserve gas I looked at alternate ways of getting there. My USGS topo map revealed a much more direct route which would cut off a couple of miles and would require no vehicle emmissions. So I thought I would check [...]

mmmmmm! Granola

July 7, 2008

This past winter I worked with Andy Rosenberg and Andy Jacobsen on this Nature Valley ad. The production crew that came out had never done a skiing shoot and most of them didn’t even ski. They had two days for the shoot and the Wasatch was in the middle of one of her biggest storms. [...]