Update- It seems as though the accuracy of this post has come into question. Over a month ago, I heard about this descent via an email from someone who saw ski tracks on the route, as well as hearing about it thru Facebook and Twitter posts. More recently, I saw it posted on some other [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Archangel Ridge on Mount Foraker Gets First Ski Descent
by July 31st, 20092008-2009 TetonAT.com Slideshow
by July 30th, 2009
Well…it’s been another great ski season. Stretching from long approaches and early season turns on the Middle Teton Glacier on October 25th, to…long approaches and late season turns in the Winds River Range in early July. Not too bad…milking 9 months of skiing out of the lower forty-eight, [...]
Slush Cup ’89
by July 29th, 2009Okay let’s see…1989…the year I graduated high school. Skiing-wise, I was still an intermediate, trying my darnedest to keep my legs glued together when I skied, sipping peach-tree schnapps while night skiing at Ski Sundown and getting worked trying to master my mogul skills on runs like Outer Limits at Killington. By 1989, I had [...]
IceAxe.TV’s 2009 Antarctic Ski Cruise
by July 27th, 2009I don’t know about you, but skiing the globe’s southern most continent has been a dream of mine ever since I saw a slide show given by snowboarder John Griber here in Jackson about 6 years ago. The problem is though, it is so expensive to get there and the logistics can be a nightmare [...]
Sure Feels Like Christmas!!!
by July 24th, 2009You know winter is on it’s way when you go to the post office to pick up an unexpected package…and it turns out to be new skis for the upcoming season. This sort of thing is bound to perk up anyone’s day and there was no way I was going to let the fact that [...]
Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009: Day 2
by July 23rd, 2009Though I missed the “money shot” of this swainson’s hawk hanging out on the fence post in southwestern Wyoming on the drive home yesterday afternoon, it’s always cool to see a bird of prey up close. At last winter’s Outdoor Retailer, I was able to get some spy photos of the full carbon La Sportiva [...]
Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009: Day 1
by July 22nd, 2009Just a quick blast before another day of roaming the aisles and checking out new products. Fortunately, although it’s summer time, there is still some good stoke to provide for us skiers. Though unnamed at the current time and undergoing the test phase this winter, B and D Ski Gear is trying to enter the [...]
Outdoor Retailer Prestoke: New S10 Black Diamond Products
by July 21st, 2009Today is the first day of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market and if you’re a Black Diamond sales representative for the Rockies, it can be pretty challenging…if not impossible, to meet with all your accounts and show them the line in between the unending amount of socializing, posturing, partying and down right full schedule at [...]
Go Green…Wax Your Skis With The Sun!
by July 20th, 2009I know everyone (well…maybe not everyone) is trying to be “green” these days and for those of you still skiing, or those that forgot to put summer wax on, or those that just don’t have access to an iron, here is a fun way to harness the power of the sun to get your skis [...]
Teton Gravity Research’s “Re:Sessions” Trailer
by July 18th, 2009Name That Couloir #17
by July 17th, 2009Dynafit Heel-Slop Mini-Mod
by July 16th, 2009I feel like I have to preempt this post by saying that I think there is no other AT binding out there that out performs the Dynafit system when considering weight, ease of use, reliability and performance. Yeah, you can pretty much make any product do anything you want, but the trick is to keep [...]
Greg Hill’s Mont Blanc In a Day Video
by July 15th, 2009Props to my bro Greg Hill on his one-day ascent and descent of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, on May 2nd of this season. Greg was only in Chamonix for four days, but scored the big prize by teaming up with some serious rando’ers and nailed the 12,000′ climb in a killer one day ascent…from [...]
Don’t You Hate It When…
by July 14th, 2009Don’t you hate it when you hike your skis and 65lb pack through blazing heat 12 miles into the backcountry, only to be denied your objective and hike out the next day because of a blister? Well I do! Luckily, it wasn’t my blister…and I didn’t have to drive 6 hours to get it. Oh [...]
Greenpeace Banner Calls for Global Warming Leadership
by July 13th, 2009Last Wednesday, the environmental activist group Greenpeace unfurled a banner calling out President Obama to step-it-up in relation to fighting global warming. Since then, the controversy relating to the incident continues, with people weighting in on both sides of the issue. On one hand, some people believe that global warming is not a man-made occurrence, [...]
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