While we have been out in Mt Shasta, Reed and I have been sleeping at the Bunny Flat trailhead to make it that much easier to get after it in the morning. And although it is very beautiful (and sometimes humorous), there is pretty much a steady stream of cars coming and going due to [...]
Archive for April, 2007
ShastaAT.com-2007/Day 2
by April 29th, 2007ShastaAT.com-2007/Day 1
by April 27th, 2007Reed and I got into into town last night around eight and after a big dinner, we drove up to Bunny Flats to crash for the night. We were both pretty tired from the 15 hour drive and skiing in the Tetons the day before, so we didn’t get going until nearly eight the next [...]
Product Testing with Mountain Khakis
by April 26th, 2007I’m off to Mount Shasta with Reed for a few days of California sun and will be blogging when I can. Last week I saw the Mountain Khakis Land Rover parked on the road on my way to work. Now this is not surprising, since the Jackson Hole based company recently relocated to some office [...]
Coloradians/Californians Taste Success in the Tetons
by April 25th, 2007One of the cool things about having this blog is all the interesting people it has allowed me to meet so far. I often get emails, like daily, from total strangers interested in finding out more about Teton ski conditions and specific route beta. This past weekend, some skiers from Colorado and California were in [...]
Whippet Modifications
by April 24th, 2007Warning: These modifications to the Black Diamond Whippet are in NO way endorsed by Black Diamond or any of its employees and will nullify any warranty possibilities. The use of the Whippet in any other way than that intended by Black Diamond is NOT recommended. Ski mountaineering, backcountry skiing, and climbing are dangerous. Please…ski, climb, [...]
Short But Sweet in the Northern Winds
by April 23rd, 2007Last April (2006), Dustin Lemke, Chris Figenshau and I ventured into the Ross Lake area of the northern Wind River Range in search of steep couloirs and general exploration. Randosteve skis Crystal Lake Couloir in the Wind River Range, photo: Chris Figenshau I only had two days off of work that week, which isn’t much [...]
Photos from the Weekend
by April 22nd, 2007Well…I turned things down a little bit this weekend, after the little scare back in Avalanche Canyon last week. I had a trip planned to the Winds that just got canceled…and I’m not happy about it. Here are a couple photos from the little skiing I did do this weekend. Ciao! A skier gets first [...]
Thumbnail Viewing Upgrade
by April 20th, 2007FYI..with the help of Jansen, from VR Interactive, I have improved the way in which thumbnails were viewed in the photo page. In the past, when you clicked on a thumbnail it took you too another window that was hard to navigate and easy to get lost in. Now, that same click keeps you within [...]
Close-call in Avalanche Canyon
by April 19th, 2007Brian Ladd hikes around Taggart Lake after losing a ski in a slough avalanche in Avalanche Canyon. About halfway to the fork in Avalanche Canyon today was when I knew I should have gone skiing on Teton Pass instead. It was snowing really hard now, and you could hear the winds ripping on the peaks [...]
TetonAT.com in the JH News and Guide
by April 19th, 2007I’m gambling with the weather for turns today, but a big thanks to Michael Perlman for his great piece on backcountry skiing blogs in the weekly edition of the Jackson Hole News and Guide yesterday. Michael was kind enough to feature TetonAT.com in his article “Backcountry-skiing Blogs Take Off”. He included some quotes from Steve [...]
Ellingwood Couloir-Middle Teton
by April 18th, 2007Can you find the skiers/climbers in this photo of the Grand Teton? Today’s trip to ski the Ellingwood Couloir on the Middle Teton evolved from many options that we put on the table both the night before and as the day progressed. It was my first day skiing with Dustin Lemke since he came back [...]
Save Wyoming from Excessive Gas Drilling
by April 17th, 2007That Wind River Range trip report is a good segway into today’s post, which is about how they (and the surrounding areas) need our help…bad….and NOW!!!! A drill rig operates in the Pinedale Anticline, photo Linda Baker This Tuesday is the public forum for proposed gas drilling expansion into the Wyoming Range…and the upper Hoback, [...]
Peak 11,050
by April 16th, 2007I’ve been eye-balling this line back in Avalanche Canyon for the past couple weeks, and at least one other person noticed it too…cuz they emailed me about it. Well last Friday looked like it was going to be nice, so I figured I’d give it a go. Fellow rando racer Zahan Billimoria had called me, [...]
Salvaging Ski Descents in the Winds
by April 13th, 2007This Saturday, the 14th, is the anniversary of my first ski trip ever into the Wind River Range in 2005. I put a little piece together about the trip and sent it to some magazines, and ended up getting two pages in Backcountry. I was really hoping to get a feature slot, so I had [...]
NEW Teton Descents Page
by April 12th, 2007Slowly but surely I’m getting this website up to speed, more streamlined and easier to use, but there is a lot more to do to get it 100 percent dialed. In an effort to make viewing and searching for trip reports easier, I have now created a Teton Descents page. Please direct your attention to [...]
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