December 21, 2004
Hello fellow backcountry ski and snowboard enthusiasts. After years of web forum posting as well as constantly adding content to this website, WildSnow.com, I’ve decided to follow the masses and publish a blog. (For historical reference, note I registered the WildSnow.com domain name August 28, 1998 and published this website soon after. Prior to that, I was webmaster for Couloir Magazine.
In December of 2004 I converted WildSnow.com into a blog. THIS IS THE FIRST BLOG POST, BUT NOT THE FIRST CONTENT.
I’ll be covering backcountry related subjects here — mostly backcountry skiing related — but also ranging through hiking, mountain biking, 4-wheel-drive trail driving, hunting, and just about anything else my family and I do in the backcountry.
While this will be family friendly, I don’t plan on getting too personal. Updates will generally be daily, in the morning, but I’ll do multiple updates on days when the muse hits me.
Also, this will be mostly created by me, Lou, though my family might chime in now and then. (Editor’s note: as WildSnow.com progressed through the years, Lou added more guest bloggers and the website now includes a great deal of content from different voices.)
Blog stuff: I spoke this morning with Hamish Gowans, a Colorado climber who’s trying to do winter ascents of all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks in a short time period this winter. I’ll be posting updates of his project here at Wildsnow.com. Climbing 14ers in winter is tougher than most people realize — should be interesting. I learned this morning that alpinist Barry Corbet has died. He had a long career, including participating in the early Canadian Rockies ski traverse with Bill Briggs, and as a team member on the 1963 American’s Everest expedition. He’d been in a wheelchair for years, since a helicopter accident while filming the mountains near here (Aspen area). See excellent obit here.
That’s it for now — today or tomorrow look for more blogging about the recent Charge the Stars uphill race on the Aspen Mountain ski area, and perhaps a bit of opinion about a few controversial subjects.
Thanks for checking in — I hope you enjoy it!
‘best, Lou
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.
