I’m proud to announce a great new sponsor- As many of you know I was born and inbred here in Salt Lake City, UT. What you may not know is that I was raised as a good normal Mormon who attended church every week, paid a tithe and I even went on to serve a [...]

GREAT? As an ice climb, yes. WHITE? Not really, more yellow and brown at this time of year. ICICLE? Yes there was still some ice and a tiny bit of snow. When Andy Jacobsen was 17 or so, he climbed the GWI in powder snow that was nipple deep. He told me that story many [...]

The quest to finish the Chuting Gallery continues with the classic Lightning Bolt on Cardiac Ridge. Rating-S6+, Pitch-60 degrees, Vertical 450ft Some great quotes from the book- “hopefully avoided all together” “seldom in good shape, lots of rocks in it even with tons of coverage” This is another one of those lines I’ve never really [...]

My last post on the Ribbon at Alta got me focused again on the Chuting Gallery. I’ve had plenty of excuses lately, some good and some not. I guess I’ve been waiting for ‘ideal’ conditions after being shut down so many times now. Today was a ‘nice’ pre-frontal day, time to give the Generator a [...]

The original post on this outing was deleted in the transfer of servers, so here is an updated version. When I first saw Andrew Mclean’s book ‘The Chuting Gallery’ I was dumbfounded. I was peacefully enjoying the powder bowls of the Wasatch Mtns and had no idea of the crazy shit that was going down. [...]

High pressure in the Wasatch last weekend turned our focus elsewhere. After looking around the west we found that Mount Shasta had a favorable weather forecast and stable avalanche conditions. We packed up and headed out to see what we would find. First view of 14,179ft Mount Shasta We arrived mid day and hiked in [...]

I’m not really sure who is out there reading this, but my guess is it’s folks who love the mountains like I do. Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy this, the 100th post!! When I started blogging a few years ago it was at the request of a sponsor and I wasn’t that [...]

The plan for the day was to climb Kessler four times and ski the four main lines off the peak by working our way from the East Couloir to God’s Lawnmower, then Argenta and finishing into Mineral Fork with the West Couloir. 11hr days make for long blog posts.Pass on this one if you’re expecting [...]

Great new product I’ve been using the past few winters! Makes a great gift for those hard to shop for ‘fancy pants Nancy boys’. This is the beginning to my segment in our movie TELEVISION. I grew the beard out for 6 weeks while I was in AK and we shot the segment in Jonah’s [...]

I’ve been updating my blog and in switching servers some posts were deleted. This was a highlight from last winter that I’ve rewritten with more pics and info from the route. Plinko! (new line on the Pfiefferhorn?) We were filming in the are of the Pfiefferhorn last week when I spotted what appeared to be [...]