After about 24 hrs of travel and four plane rides today, I will be in Christchurch, New Zealand…two days later. It’s a nineteen hour time difference between Jackson (MST) and Christchurch (NZDT), and my longest leg is from Los Angeles to Auckland…which looks to be about a 13 hour flight. OUCH! Hopefully a coupe sleep-aids [...]
Archive for September, 2010
See You When I See You…
by September 28th, 2010La Grave: A Skier’s Journey
by September 27th, 2010This is rather interesting (and different)…check it out! Support TetonAT and SWITCH GEARS at Backcountry.com.
Spicy Avalanche Conditions Expected in New Zealand
by September 27th, 2010It’s pretty hard to avoid there being high avalanche danger in New Zealand when it snows 13 feet in 10 days. Like with most trips, local or abroad, I’ve started to eyeball the conditions and weather forecasts for New Zealand. (Launch day is tomorrow!) MetService.com seems to be the best website for weather and Avalanche.net.nz [...]
Suunto M5 Getting Me Fit For New Zealand
by September 24th, 2010Lately, I’ve been making an extra effort to go trail running and get in good physical shape for this upcoming trip to New Zealand. About month ago, I also received a new Suunto M5 training watch and with its different training guidance selections, it’s been really helpful in keeping me on track. See, the Suunto [...]
Extreme Freeride Stoke!
by September 23rd, 2010I’m just a few days out from heading to New Zealand and busy getting all my gear together and wrapping up things at work. Being such a gear geek it’s often hard to decide what to bring…and I’m a stress case because of it. Here’s some good stoke to tide you over for hump-day.
Maruelli “Natural Walking Plate”
by September 22nd, 2010This new product from Maruelli (inventor of the Click-Clack) is due to show at the 2011 ISPO (Feb. 6th) and claims to be the greatest this since sliced bread for maintaining a “natural stride” when skinning. Dubbed the Natural Walking Plate and with the aid of two hinged points, it allows for the toe of [...]
USAirNet.com For Kick Butt Weather Forecasts
by September 21st, 2010I know many of you are at times like. Obsessed with weather? Big days, multiple day trips and generally getting objectives done, often mean short or long stints of good weather. Yeah, it’s nice to have everlasting dumpage and soft powder, but sooner or later the clouds are gonna break, the sun will shine and [...]
Better Management Needed for Snowmobiles In Our NF?
by September 20th, 2010In what could be looked at as a major step towards more management of snowmobile use in our national forests, a group of 90 organizations, including the Access Fund, Sierra Club, and Winter Wildlands Alliance, have come together and are petitioning the USDA and USFS so that snowmobiles and other “over-snow vehicles” be removed from [...]
Who Needs Rock Climbing?
by September 17th, 2010So, I posted this video on my Facebook page a few days ago and I thought all of you that don’t “faceplant” all the time might want to check it out. Be sure to watch it until the end to get the full value and thrill factor. It’s not really skiing related, but I’m in [...]
Aoraki/Mount Cook Ski Descent Video
by September 16th, 2010The Linda Glacier ski descent route on Aoraki/Mount Cook follows the red line, but goes into the “Gun Barrels” (blue line) instead of the Summit Rocks section. Photo courtesy Alpinism and Ski. In honor of heading to New Zealand in a couple weeks, I figured I’d post this video of Bruce Grant skiing Aoraki/Mount Cook [...]
2010/2011 Winter Weather Predictions
by September 15th, 2010What’s in store for you this winter? Well folks, even though my mind is on skiing in the southern hemisphere right now, I’m still stressing and wondering how this coming winter is going to shape up here at home, both in regards to temperature and precipitation. Of course it’s every skier’s dream to have cold [...]
Two Weeks To New Zealand
by September 14th, 2010Yeah baby! I’m pretty psyched to say that I’m headed to New Zealand to ski for the entire month of October. Before I go any further, I’d like to specifically thank Black Diamond and Arc’teryx Equipment for helping me make this happen. Without their support, I wouldn’t be able to experience a lot of things [...]
Australis Movie…Early Screening
by September 13th, 2010I just wanted to spread the word that “Austrails: An Antarctic Ski Odyssey” is a done deal and ready for ripping to DVD. I scored an advanced copy of the movie and though it was quite good. (See below for trailer) I don’t know if it is because I’ve been to Antarctica or what, but [...]
New Book: 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America
by September 10th, 2010This looks rather interesting and is due out in mid October. Unfortunately my “classic” submission got cut from the book because it was too exotic. Not a bad problem to have I guess. I still look forward to seeing the final production version though. Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America is a large format [...]
Mount Everest Hornbein Couloir Ski Descent Attempt
by September 10th, 2010It looks like there is another “sky skiing” expedition we should start keeping our eyes on. This one involves Italians Edmond Joyeusaz, Gianluca Marra and Francesco Civra Dano (all mountain guides in Courmayeur) and a descent of the Hornbein Couloir on Mount Everest…which would be insane and in my opinion, one for raddest (and challenging?) [...]
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