Today was my first Park tour of the season. Conditions are still quite thin down low but the snow up high was great! The temperature was -5F at the trailhead and we could feel it in our lungs. We followed a skin track across Whitegrass Meadow, to the top of Maverick and found some sunglasses [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Peak 10,696/Maverick-First Park Tour
by November 30th, 2006Gribes goes to Acongcagua
by November 28th, 2006Good luck to John Griber and Company on their way to Aconcagua to attempt to climb, and then ski/board the Polish Glacier Route. Their adventure will be fallowed closely on Doug Stoups website www.iceaxetv.com. John is in the thick of it right now as far as adventure traveling goes…with a trip to India this winter [...]
OXIA
by November 27th, 2006Today we had some visitors from Aspen in the shop pushing their portable oxygen product OXIA. The idea is that it is small enough to travel with you and have enough oxygen to make it worth it. Cartridges hold from 60-100 breaths. It can be applied in a training sense for faster recovery and be [...]
Table Mountian-A Yearly Ritual
by November 20th, 2006This season’s tradition of skiing Table Mt finally came to fruition. After a couple weeks of weather and scheduling conflicts, I was able to posse up with my ski partner Reed Finlay, his wife Rebecca and friend Samantha Worthington for a great day on the Idaho side of the Tetons. The day started overcast but [...]
Skiing in New Zealand Part III
by November 17th, 2006We quickly had a gear explosion and repacked for quick afternoon outing to sample the goods. A short couloir on Mt Abel at the head of the Glacier (dubbed Hole #1) caught my eye and we made our way to the top for some bonafide NZ ‘kung-fu’ turns. Once in the hut we made do [...]
Skiing in New Zealand Part II
by November 15th, 2006After a few days we started to get antsy waiting for the weather to break, so we picked out a nice gully to ski. A 1000′ of hiking up scree brought us to the snow line which proved to be unconsolidated from the rain and warmer temps. I remember thinking to myself ‘this sucks’ as [...]
Skiing in New Zealand
by November 14th, 2006I was fired up upon leaving for this trip. I was in prime physical shape from a summer of trail running and ultra-marathon training, as well as always having the skifluenza bug. I drove down to Park City to meet up with Andrew McLean. After some final gear organizing and final tweaks to my new [...]
First Turns on the Pass
by November 10th, 2006Last night it snowed…so I went skiing. This is my first ski trip since going to New Zealand it if felt great. Most of the snow has melted on the sunlight aspects, but a nice crust layer has formed were the snowpack has been able to hold on through the rain and warm temps. Glory [...]
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