The big daddy Powder Keg randonnee skimo race was held this past weekend (March 19) in Utah. I hear this year’s ‘Keg was exciting as always, with Euro World Cuppers posting amazing times, straightlining couloirs on their feather-weight race rigs, and generally showing us how it’s done — along with a top notch performance by our own North American Jennie Wall, who took fourth in the women’s World Cup division. Check out this still sequence of a 16 second transition from uphill to downhill mode!!!
WildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history to ski down all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks, has authored numerous books about about backcountry skiing, and has skied from the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest mountain.
