Andrew McLean reports that Canadian backcountry skier and randonnee racer Greg Hill has completed his “Odyssey” project of climbing and skiing one million vertical feet in one year! “It was something like 150 days,” reports McLean about Hill’s feat, “with a 7k per day average and 37 days over 10k…biggest day was 40 k.”
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.
