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And so it begins. The start of a 12 day road trip spanning 4000 miles and 4 states. The kids safely on the way to grandmas for 2 weeks its now time to ski. I drove up to Alma and the Kite Lake Road. I parked at the snow line and ran up to try [...]

This is another mountain that I don’t have any surviving pictures for. I skied the East Chutes back in 95. This will serve as my TR for my 14er trip. Enjoy Got out for a nice solo after a night spent dealing with a migraine. I was super slow fighting the effects of the pain [...]

Got up for a nice tour before the weather rolled in. Dan joined me for this trip. First up was Peak 10 and its south slopes. The snow was pretty lame. Kind of crusty and not worth the effort. So we made for the saddle with Crystal. Up we went and enjoyed buttercream snow down [...]

Well the plan this week was to go for Mt Helen’s South Face, then it changed to Crystal’s east slopes and then both my partners backed out the morning of due to various ailments so there you have it. What’s quick and easy with little avy hazard. Quandary’s East slopes. I skied Quandary’s North Gully [...]

After looking at the weather develop this week I was thinking a trip to the Sawatch might be in order. I was a little worried about all the new snow and how it would bond, so I thought a big day in an area with potentially less snow might be what was called for. I’ve [...]

After “Drift Peak” I needed some soothing so I went down to Cottonwood Hot Springs. I love that place so much. Me and my wife fell in love there. I designed their t-shirts back in ’96. The water’s great and there’s a really cool vibe especially when it’s not summer. The plan was to meet [...]

Oh the pleasures of being a parent. My 2 year old brought me the pain last week. I had vomiting and diarrhea in insane quantities, first him and then me. It didn’t stop until Saturday when I took his older brother to Breck. When you make a promise to your kid you have to keep [...]