Posts Tagged ‘steep skiing’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

Share Drew Stoecklein has been hell bent on getting into the distant peaks behind his folks ranch to make some turns. He’s gone through hell over the last few years to make that happen. With failed attempts involving everything from donkey’s to snowmobiles and more epics than such an objective may warrant, I wasn’t that [...]

Share A brief interruption in the follow up reports from Norway. Still 2 more to come. Turns out the season isn’t over just yet! Heading up to Idaho this morning with my brother, Drew Stoecklein and Griffin Post to ski Bad Rock Peak in Idaho. This has been a mission of Drew’s for years and [...]

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 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 [...]