Archive for January, 2009

andrew mclean’s top 10 wasatch classics in 10 days

January 23, 2009

Share In case you have been skiing too much to keep up on your internetting, you better check out the following. Andrew McLean just finished up a 10 day odyssey up and down the ‘Classic’ lines of the Wasatch. See the full story here at www.straightchuter.com. I was lucky enough to tag along on two [...]

rampage attempt

January 19, 2009

Share The Wasatch is busy on the weekends. Time to visit the deep random reaches for some recon. (Parking at the S-Curve in BCC) Andy Rosenberg and I have been talking about these ramps in upper Mill B for way too long. Time to take a closer look. Mill B is a huge drainage with [...]

little pine chute video

January 14, 2009

Share Yesterday was one of those unforgettable days where conditions exceed expectations in every way. I had tried to ski Little Pine many years ago and a friend and I were turned away a few hundred feet from the ridge. Yesterday Jonah, Andy J and I plowed our way to the top and skied it [...]

the 80 inch rule

January 5, 2009

Share We’ve been skiing our fill of mellow angle pow so far this season. This is a shot from last Saturday up near Alta. The Wasatch mountains take a fair amount of snow to coat them from all the sharp pointy rocks and season ending stumps. It’s good to take it easy early in the season [...]