Archive for May, 2009

Today Dylan Freed and I are leaving to attempt a ski descent of the Archangel Ridge on Mount Foraker. 
 
There isn’t much information out there on the route. Here a trip report on the second ascent from the American Alpine Journal. 

 
 
Here is a video fly over of the route on a 3D topo map.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUuGugcrDGw
Jonah will be posting [...]

One of the longest days I’ve spent in the mountains (16hrs 6mins) is going to make for a long blog entry. This is just a warning that this read might take a bit longer than the average of 1:57min per visit on this site. 
The Plan: Start at Alta Ski Area and traverse West to Salt [...]

  
So if you checked the link from my last post (here) you saw some high quality pics from Derek that pretty much covered the outing. Well it might be redundant, but I’ve got a few to add.
 We hoofed it to the summit and had a snack and a view. Both Delicious! Sorry no pics, go [...]

I recently purchased a street legal dirt bike for cruising town and playing around off road. Got a call from Derek who just picked up a bike as well, he wanted to put them to use for a ski tour. 
I’m going to go the lazy route and just link to Derek’s site. He’s got some [...]