I have never met Arne Backstrom, but I have met a lot of people from the Tahoe area that knew him well, including Kip Garre who was with him when he died and his brother Ralph, who was on the IceAxe.tv trip to Antarctica last year. Arne died on June 3rd while on an acclimatization [...]
Archive for June, 2010
RIP Arne Backstrom
by June 7th, 2010Missing Climbers After 1-2 Meter Deep Avalanche on Rainier
by June 6th, 2010Courtesy King5.com. Good luck to the rescue teams still searching for the one or two missing climbers that are missing after an avalanche swept 12 people off of Mount Rainier early Saturday morning. Reports say the avalanche occurred at 4:45am, was 300-400′ wide, 1-2 meters deep, ran about 1,200′ and was located at about the [...]
180° South Screening For Teton Boulder Project
by June 4th, 2010Come support the Teton Bouldering Project and see the screening of 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless, which tells the story of Yvon Chouinard and his epic adventure with friends in 1968 when he traveled from California to Patagonia to attempt to climb Mount Fitzroy. The film not only focuses on Yvon’s and his “fun-hog” [...]
Support TreeFight.org Tonight!
by June 3rd, 2010
Some of you may be familiar with the recently created organization called TreeFight. Based and focused mainly in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for now, TreeFight’s goal is to educate and help fight the growing problem our forests, specifically the white bark pine, are having with the pine beetle [...]
Skiing vs Snowboard Mountaineering
by June 2nd, 2010In all seriousness though (as opposed to Friday’s post), we all know that snowboarding at a high level can be just as difficult as skiing and only the strongest riders are able to tackle the gnarliest lines when it comes to snowboard mountaineering. In addition, in the comments section of a trip report from skiing [...]
Today…A Skier Was Born
by June 1st, 2010Randosteve gets a helping hand from his grandpa…circa 1975. It took him a few years to realize it, but by the age of 4 (and the immeasurable thanks to his parents) he had experienced his first turn. As as child, his banzai, high-speed snow-plow descents were the entertainment of his family and friends, and he [...]
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