Gear tips for skiing Colorado’s Fourteeners, and general ski touring information for backcountry fun and adventure.

Mount Princeton Backcountry Ski Descent – Colorado Fourteeners

Sean backcountry skied Mount Princeton (just behind our motel shown in previous post) from the summit a few days ago. This was his 5th try in getting a solid summit descent from Princeton so he can claim it as one…

Skiing Mount Shavano, 14er in Colorado.

News media is reporting that a skier died today in an avalanche on Quandary Peak, a fourteener near Breckenridge, Colorado. It sounds like two men headed up to climb the peak during high hazard, with no avalanche rescue gear and…

According to the well known one-handed alpinist and backcountry skier, he completed the peaks over March 3-9 and had ‘excellent weather… stable snow…spring-like conditions on many aspects.’