I spoke with someone who knows about Cerro Mercedario, the mountain Carl died on. He said the snow tends to become very icy in this region of the Andes. I have no wish to pick apart Carl’s accident as I…

Photographer and ski mountaineer Carl Skoog had been killed in a fall while ski mountaineering in South America, January 2006. I met Carl for the first time in 1995

Colorado Friends Hut Founder Jim Gebhart — Goodbye, he lived in Crested Butte, Colorado.

Heather Paul, pioneer of U.S. ski mountaineering racing, dies in Tetons, climbing fall.

As for skiing turns all year, here we are coming up to July. With a good skiing June under our belts, we’re going to try making a few runs over the next months

In 1986, Mountain Rescue Aspen leader Greg Mace died in a fall during a training climb on the Maroon Bells near Aspen. Numerous ceremonies and memorials ensued, including the naming of Greg Mace Peak in Colorado’s Elk Mountains. But one important piece was missing in the healing from this awful tragedy.