I’m sitting here fighting a cold, resting, and staring out the window at a beautiful bluebird day. I’m also responding to some emails about Teton approaches, which lead me to revisit this video. Thanks for your emails…they are getting me amped for a park day tomorrow. TetonAT, circa 2006.
Archive for January, 2011
Thanks For Getting Me Amped!
by January 31st, 2011Maybe He Should Have Used Dynafits?
by January 31st, 2011Props to Derek for having the cahones to drop into Central Couloir while it is still a pretty large, mandatory, double-drop air at the bottom. Unfortunately, it appears his alpine setup couldn’t stay on his feet and his ski popped off just as he went for it. Glad he didn’t get hurt.
Jackson Hole FWT Highlights
by January 31st, 2011I was out at JHMR on Saturday for the FWT competition. I was mostly at the base area helping man the Black Diamond booth, one of the title sponsors, but it’s pretty wild to see the lines some of the competitors came up with, both in the Casper and Tower Three venues. Congrats to all [...]
Tired!
by January 29th, 2011After skinning about 30 miles, as well as climbing and skiing Mount Moran over the past two days, I will admit it…I’m tired. More photos to come. The Cathedral group at 6:41 pm last night.
Nez Perce Sustrugi
by January 27th, 2011I’m off on a long slog and overnight mission today, so I’ll be back next week. Here’s a little edit from skiing the West Hourglass Couloir on Nez Perce the other day. We were behind another party headed into Garnet Canyon and when they told us there were headed to the Hourglass as well, we [...]
Black Diamond’s Vendor Code of Conduct
by January 26th, 2011With Chinese President Will Hu Jintoa’s recent visit to the United States (or equally important…some comments to this blog post), and the fact that numerous companies in the outdoor industry employ (in one way or another) people in various countries around the world (China being one of the largest), it brings up many questions regarding [...]
Negative Tracks
by January 25th, 2011The Tetons poke above the clouds yesterday morning. Click photos for larger image. Conditions have been pretty stellar here in the Tetons the past few days. With fresh snow every morning and the sun popping out, things have been great for ski touring. Over the past couple days however, I’ve had a mixed bag of [...]
Gotta Love Manitobans!
by January 25th, 2011But…what is a “tin bit”? Support TetonAT and check out the deal of the moment at SteepAndCheap.com.
More From Outdoor Retailer
by January 24th, 2011At last winter’s Outdoor Retailer, I got to fondle one of the new La Sportiva skis. While it seemed to have decent construction (made in the Movement ski factory, in Tunisia), it was sub 90mm at the waist, which honestly, doesn’t really get me jumping for joy. But when I heard they also had a [...]
Outdoor Retailer Avy Corner
by January 21st, 2011I was able to get by a few of the booths of the “players” in the avalanche safety game while at the Outdoor Retailer trade show yesterday. I’m keen to Ortovox products, but it’s always fun to see what other products are out there as well. The Ortovox S1+. My first stop was at Ortovox, [...]
Black Diamond 2011 Ski Line
by January 20th, 2011Black Diamond ski testing at Snowbird in December. Not only is Black Diamond now the title sponsor (along with Subaru, click here to read more) of the Freeskiing World Tour, it is stepping up it’s Power Series ski line-up for Fall of 2011 to meet the needs of hardcore skiers as well. With traditional sandwich [...]
WWA Film Festival in Victor
by January 19th, 2011If you have time on Thursday night, be sure to check out the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival at the Wild Wood Room in Victor, Idaho. I’m not sure what time it starts, or how much the entry fee is, but I do know that there will be some good backcountry stoke to be [...]
Trade Show Time
by January 19th, 2011Well, it’s trade show time and I had an alpine start and drive, with a mixture of plowed, unplowed, one tire on the road and the other busting freshies on my way to the demo day today. It was pretty white knuckle at times, but I made it in time to ski on some great [...]
What’s Next Snowbird…A Ferris Wheel?
by January 18th, 2011Artist rendition of the “Mountain Coaster” at Snowbird, By Jared Hargrave. Yesterday, I was informed of Snowbird’s proposed roller-coaster to be built on the lower flanks of Mount Superior. It would be dubbed the “Mountain Coaster” (pretty creative…eh?) and would start about 400 vertical feet up the slopes of Mount Superior, have about 3,000’ of [...]
Rainy Day Viewing: Touching The Void
by January 17th, 2011
I’m not sure where I’m gonna ski on this kinda wet, high avy danger day (I don’t mind a little January thaw, if it means shoring up the winter snowpack), but I know watching Touching the Void will at least kill a couple hours and keep me entertained. [...]
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