You never know what you’ll find when the snow melts. Some people comb the ski slopes for lost articles dropped from chair lifts or yard sales on the slopes. But ever wonder what turns up under those huge snow banks on the side of the road? Rumor has it this guy triggered the avalanche that [...]
Archive for March, 2008
When the Snow Melts
by March 12th, 2008Video: Skiing Prospector’s Apocalypse Couloir
by March 11th, 2008I skied Apocalypse Couloir with Harder last week. It was Brian’s first time skiing it and that gave me a good excuse to let him do most of the trail breaking. Thanks Bra! I also used it as a way to get my mind right so to speak and it was the first run on [...]
Getting My Mind Right
by March 10th, 2008I’ve had a few days off back in Jackson after getting home from Europe. I’m glad too because I’ve been having a bugger of a time getting my internal clock reset and have been waking up at 3 and 4am the past few days…though daylight savings time helped a bit yesterday. The weather has been [...]
TR: Chamonix, France
by March 7th, 2008As anticipated, Sunday broke bluebird with a reported 30cm of new snow high in the mountains and lots of wind overnight. Surprisingly we were on the ball and out of the hostel just after 7am in hopes of catching one of the first few trams up the Agui du Midi. Unfortunately, the cable had gotten [...]
To Chamonix
by March 5th, 2008Greybird skies on the Agui du Midi. After the Ski Mountaineering Word Championships in Champery, wet, dreary weather was forecast for the area. Our original plan was to spend a couple nights at the Bertol Hut in the shadow of the Matterhorn, but none of us were looking forward to a potential needle in a [...]
Video: Mini-Golf Couloir Skiing on Prospector Mountain
by March 3rd, 2008Just posting this video before heading to the Geneva airport to head home. We stayed with Nicholas Combe one of the coaches of the Swiss Ski Mountaineering Team and his wife Severine Pont-Combe who is one of the top two, if not the top, female racers on the team. They were super hospitable and even [...]
Hello From Chamonix
by March 3rd, 2008Just one day skiing here in Chamonix before having to hit the road and deal with getting back to Jackson. I’ve had very limited time and access to the web, so sorry no updates in the past few days…and probably not much going on here until around mid week. We caught one day of really [...]
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