January 26, 2012
Share Last year was infuckingcredible in the Wasatch Mountains! That is, if you like powder snow. And I do! In sharp and painful contrast to this season’s grim start, last winter delivered. I remember passing on days because it ONLY snowed 12-14 inches. Now we are begging for anything (and it looks like change is [...]
January 21, 2012
Share Help stop Talisker and the Canyons from putting a ski lift in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Concerned Wasatch Mountain residents please come join me at 3:15 on Tuesday 1/24 at the Salt Lake City and County Building (2001 S State). We’ll have a chance to voice our extreme disinterest in the Skilink project. Click here for more [...]
January 4, 2012
Share Those who have compared our life to a dream are right… we are sleeping awake, and waking sleep. -Michel de Montaigne- I am living a dream. Few things in this life (dream) am I this certain of. I am living a dream and you cannot tell me otherwise. How do I know? Because, what [...]
November 5, 2011
Share I have always been a slow reader, but I never imagined it would take me 13 years to finish a flimsy paperback. ‘Why would you want to ski that’? I remember thinking as Andrew Mclean was dryly presenting his steep rock lined descents at an REI slideshow. I was fresh out of the resort [...]
October 3, 2011
Share per·verse (pr-vûrs, pûrvûrs) adj. 1. Directed away from what is right or good; perverted. 2. Obstinately persisting in an error or fault; wrongly self-willed or stubborn. Route is marked in red. For 23 hours last week I unlocked the mysteries and misery of what I call the Perverse Traverse. Over 27 miles I hiked, [...]
September 21, 2011
Share Coach Courtney and I warming up on game day. He told me that, “Pain is your legs gift to you and suffering is what you give them in return.” I have no idea what that means. I’m slow on foot. I’ve never been fast. My legs will carry me all day, up and down [...]
August 24, 2011
Share Busy in the editing booth finishing up the new movie “Breaking Trail” from Powderwhore Productions. Great poster art from our friend Sean Quill. Top two photo’s are of myself taken by brother Jonah and the snowboarder is Forrest Shearer shot by Andy Jacobsen. It was nice to shoot our own photo’s this season and [...]
August 6, 2011
Share When Andrew and I made plans for Spitsbergen last spring, the idea was to kite and ski outside of town and see what we could find. This sounded like a great enough trip in itself. Shortly after we had decided on this plan, Doug Stoup a friend of Andrew’s from Ice Axe Expeditions threw [...]
July 26, 2011
Share Mid summer and I’m still posting about Spring trips. This is the final installment from the month long visit to Spitsbergen. We had a day or two in between to rest up and dry out gear before we boarded the 65ft Jonathan IV. Photo’s are sparse since I was mainly shooting video. Some of [...]
July 12, 2011
Share As we cautiously skied by the rusted out relics I felt like we were entering the ‘Forbidden Zone’ from the Planet Of The Apes . In fact Andrew and I silently coasted through the entire town with hardly a word spoken between us. WELCOME TO PYRAMIDEN! The Russians set up this outpost which ‘thrived’ [...]
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