A June storm lays up a bit of powder snow on Independence Pass, Colorado. This trip report celebrates the getting of the backcountry skiing goods.

For recent guidebook work I got a new scanner with better dynamic range (more detail in lightest and darkest areas), am having fun re-scanning some of my old prints. This one is the view of Colorado fourteeners South (left) and…

It stormed all day yesterday and we figured a bit of "dust on crust" might have resulted. Yes it was there this morning on Blarney (Louie skiing it in above photo), the peak just north of Independence Pass, Colorado. Blarney…

Poly crossing the Roaring Fork "creek" on the way to Independence Pass backcountry skiing. Kind of like the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest? A moderate weather system hit Colorado today, so backcountry skiing is out for us. We need a…

Reports filtered in yesterday from Indy. Skiers found a compacted and nicely frozen spring snowpack that yielded skiable lines all day if you picked your exposures. We skied up there today, and sure enough, we’re able to leisurely ski various…

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…