Posts Tagged ‘noah howell’

Share You travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. -Ella Maillart- Off we go by snowscooter with loaded down pulks full of gear. The 4hr ride was pretty cush and the seals, reindeer, fjords and endless peaks kept the “are we there yets” from ever creeping in. Many strange and unique surprises were [...]

Share Throwing all the gear in a pile and then staring at it doesn’t actually make it get smaller or lighter. On the current trip to the Arctic, we will be taking advantage of the endless daylight to ski and kite as much as possible.  But as always, the weather will determine whether. And in [...]

Share I’ve only been north of 66 degrees once before and I would have to agree with the tag line ‘where the good stuff is’.  As for the restaurant, I’ve been there and I think they are full of shit. Several years ago Darrell Finlayson and I went to Baffin Island with Eric Johnson and [...]

Share On April 1st 2011 I skied the NE Face of the Pfeifferhorn with Andy Jacobsen and Andrew McLean. This closes the book on a 13 year project to ski all the lines in Andrew’s skiing guidebook ‘The Chuting Gallery’. I wouldn’t say I saved the best for last, but this is a pretty cool [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]