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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 [...]

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 [...]

Sorry this is so late but I couldn’t get at my pictures due to the fact that I didn’t have any software to read the .nef files on my camera and had to get photoshop to convert my files to .jpeg. Anyway I got a call from Dan Medved about wanting to get out for [...]

After a much needed day off to think about what went down on Sheridan and rest my weary body I headed back up to the hills. I had been trying to get together with Darrell Haggard for a while and it finally seemed to work out this day. We met in Alma along with Dan  [...]

So I met my friend Joe Brannan at the 4 Mile Creek turn outside of Fairplay. We drove the 4Runner as far as we could through the snow. We got to about a mile or so below the Leavick site and gave up. From there it was easy skinning to the base of Mt Sheridan. [...]

I’ve been wanting to get up high for a few weeks now. Uncompahgre got my alpine juices flowing but the time just hasn’t seemed to be there to do anything more than ski Berthoud or do lift serve laps. I wasn’t sure what the weather was going to do on this one but we went [...]