It’s that time of year again and the Winter Wildlands Alliance is on the hunt for films to include in it’s 6th Annual Backcountry Film Festival. The festival promotes grassroots filmmakers who tell their story of non-motorized recreation and environmentalism while getting after it in the backcountry. The scope of accepted films is pretty broad [...]
Archive for June, 2010
WWA Backcountry Film Festival Submissions Needed
by June 30th, 2010Titcomb Basin 2010: Bonney Pass and Sphinx Glacier
by June 29th, 2010Brian Ladd skins towards Bonney Pass and Split-Tongued Peak in the Wind River Range. Click all photos for larger images. After skiing the South Couloir on Fremont Peak and returning to camp, we anticipated the arrival of our good friend Reed Finlay, who was coming to join us to attempt to ski Gannett Peak, the [...]
Titcomb Basin 2010: Fremont Peak, South Couloir
by June 28th, 2010Brian Ladd skis the South Couloir of Fremont Peak in the Wind River Mountains, Wy. Click all photos for larger images. We left camp for the South Couloir of Fremont Peak (13,745′…the third highest peak in Wyoming) as the sun hit the tent around 7:30am. It was a nice, cool morning and the snow had [...]
Red, White and 2!!!
by June 26th, 2010Spend your 4th of July at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort next weekend and score a great deal on lodging, music, food and fireworks. Those who book on Monday (and Monday only) will also receive 2 FREE TRAM RIDES for each room they reserve. There will also be free gondola rides up to Couloir Restaurant and [...]
Gasland on HBO
by June 25th, 2010Considering the fact that I just drove through the Pinedale Anticline, one of the problem areas described in the documentary Gasland, as well as all the hub-bub over off-shore oil drilling right now due to the oil spewing into the Gulf thanks from our friends over at BP, I thought it fitting to throw a [...]
Titcomb Basin 2010: The Trek In
by June 24th, 2010Randosteve excited to be getting close to Fremont Peak. Click all photos for larger images. There had been lots of planning, work schedule changes, weather watching and rounding up of partners involved with putting this ski trip to the Wind River Range together. One would think that skiers would line up to ski the amazing [...]
Large Avalanche in Paintbrush Canyon
by June 23rd, 2010This post is a little dated, but I’m not sure if many people have head about this. According to the Jenny Lake Rangers, a huge natural avalanche (likely triggered by a cornice drop) occurred in Paintbrush Canyon (one of the most popular canyons in the park) earlier in the month. The fracture line was reported [...]
Back From Titcomb Basin in the Winds
by June 22nd, 2010Sunset over Titcomb Basin in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. Click photo for larger image. Well…I’m back from an amazing 5-day adventure skiing in the Wind River Range. The trip was full of arduous trekking, incredible vistas, intense sun and of course, some awesome skiing. We went 2 for 3 on this trip and succeeded [...]
Off To The Wind River Range
by June 17th, 2010How many couloirs do you see on this Wind River peak? Click photo for larger image. Finally, the weather forecast is looking good for more than just a few hours and today I am off to ski in the Wind River Range of Wyoming for five days. It may be a little soggy on the [...]
Snow in South Africa!!!
by June 16th, 2010Satillite image of snow in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 7/15/10. It is fitting that not only do World Cupers have to deal with those annoying horns blaring all the time, but now they will need to deal with snow that is falling from the sky in South Africa. How often does it snow [...]
Kitty’s First Catalog Shot
by June 15th, 2010Congrats to Randokitty for getting her first Black Diamond catalog shot! (S10 Lighting and Trekking…inside cover.) I can’t believe she beat me to it. Sorry…my scanner is not very good. My only saving grace is that it wasn’t one of the ski catalogs…or else I’d never live it down. For the record, my favorite BD [...]
Second Descent of the Aguille Blance de Peuterey
by June 14th, 2010
From what I’ve been hearing, conditions in the Alps this spring have been absolutely stellar for ski mountaineering to say the least, with rad lines being ticked off by some great skiers and snowboarders. Some have been first descents, while others have been repeats of lines that haven’t [...]
Telemark Redemption
by June 11th, 2010I agree…telemarkers CAN RIP!!!! (At least in good snow.) There…I said it. Click HERE if you have no idea what this refers to. Support TetonAT and get GET READY FOR SUMMER at Backcountry.com.
When The Clouds Part…
by June 9th, 2010The clouds finally parted yesterday and showed us what has been happening high in the mountains during all the rain storms we have been having here in Jackson over the past month. What did it show us you ask? Well, it showed us that the snow/rain line was very high at one point and it [...]
2010 Broad Peak and K2 Ski Expeditions
by June 8th, 2010I’ve got my eye on a couple of ski expeditions that are about to get started in the Himalaya right now. One is an attempt on Broad Peak (8051M) by Benedikt Boehm and Pete Swenson, and the other is Fredrik Ericsson’s attempt on K2. Both of these expeditions are return trips/attempts for some of the [...]
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