Chris Davenport continues as a leader of the current generation of North American ski mountaineers in their prime. I’d heard he was going to Denali this spring, and as always expected plenty of inspiring success, but this is over the…

This past Friday’s annual Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) fundraiser “Festival of the Peaks” was a raging success. Held at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, Colorado, the event included a silent auction with an amazing amount of merchandise, a Mexican…

But even the darkest cloud has the potential to produce beautiful powder. Thus, sooner or later I suspect we’ll see a movie about Davenport’s fourteener project. I’m sure it will be enjoyable, even award winning — and perhaps better than the original cut by focusing even more on the personal, spiritual and wilderness aspects of Colorado ski alpinism.

El Diente Descents, South Side Couloir and Repeat of DeVore Route, San Juan mountains Colorado trip report.

Saturday we drove down to southern Colorado for a try at El Diente Peak, a fourteener near the town of Telluride that’s not particularly tough to ski, but has a lengthy approach with more than its fair share of avalanche…

Louie and I traveled over to Leadville, Colorado and camped at the Vicksburg trailhead in position for skiing mount Mount Oxford and Mount Belford.