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Got out for another peak on Friday. The snow has been sparse this season so far but I thought stretching the legs would be a good idea. I also needed to demo some new boots. I’m really interested in the Scarpa Maestrale RSso I thought I’d take them out for a few days and see [...]

Got out for a nice solo tour in the James Peak zone. The search for early season turns continues. This was a fun little tour and it needed to be as I got a super early alpine start at the crack of noon. Made pretty good time in shoes to the summit and found a [...]

After a long day in the wilderness I was looking for a shorter day and I wanted to focus more on skiing. I saw that Grizzly was filled in nicely when I was on the summit of Deer Mountain and decided that would be the goal for the day. All this activity had me a [...]

While I was back at home I checked some trip reports on 14ers.com. I found one from someones trip up Holy Cross and got a really good look at the north faces to the south of there. I recognized that Deer’s North Face was in and also saw that the upper portion of Oklahoma’s North [...]

After my day on Conundrum I headed up Lincoln Creek Road to recon a line I spotted on Twining. It looked in but there was a catch. I then hit the bars in Aspen pretty hard. Rob met me at Aspen Brewing and many beers were drunk. We had a good meal and then partied [...]

Last trip I skied with my friend Jesse. We skied “Atlantic Peak” via the V Couloir and had a blast. I hadn’t seen him in a really long time as he had spent the “summer” or our winter in Antarctica, working as a carpenter for Raytheon at the South Pole. That’s how it was though. [...]

Got out for a quick morning tour with my friend Jesse. I needed to be back in Denver to have some parenting time with the kids so this seemed like a good morning option. I headed up the night before so we could start at 5:30ish. From the McCullough trailhead we made quick work of [...]

Seems there’s always something up with me these days. Friday the plan was to ski El Diente but the winds had their way with that plan. I ended up having a great day anyway. Saturday provided more good times thanks to the San Juans and new friends. After skiing Handies again I headed up to [...]

Met up with Kim Ross at the T-Rex lot in Morrison and we headed up to the Sheep Gulch trailhead the night before. Car camping is fun and easy. Nothing to worry about in the morning. It makes things so much easier to just head up the trail all bleary eyed. The section of the [...]