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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 [...]

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 [...]

Well thanks to benners from 14ers.com I had beta that Uncompahgre was in from the summit. I knew that it was a great chance to get a long flat slog out of the way so I could save a day in the spring for a steeper line. I drove down the night before and camped [...]

With all the new snow I thought it would be great to try and get some of the lower angled routes done. Harvard ‘s summer route involves terrain below 30 degrees the entire way except for one small section that I had seen in recent photos was bare before the storm. The avy slopes of [...]

Got out on another trip last weekend. Went back down to the Sangres with lodgling, keith and USAKeller from 14ers.com. We met up at the trailhead the night before and did a little car camping. We woke up nice and early at 4:30 and decided with the wind and low temps we should wait a [...]