condolences to friends and family of Patrick Niedringhaus, the 18-year-old boy who died yesterday near Torrys peak in central Colorado

One year of backcountry skiing blogging and creative writing.

05-06 Black Diamond Havoc ski review for backcountry skiing

This just in — Cloudveil conspires with coffee company to create ski monkeys. Lou DawsonWildSnow.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…

Did more “frontcountry” skiing and boot/binding/ski testing up at Aspen Highlands yesterday. The steeps had a few too many bumps for my taste, and Highland Bowl was closed, so back to extreme blogging (and hopefully back to the backcountry tomorrow).…

After testing Havoc skis yesterday (see previous blog post), slapped on the climbing skins and did some headlamp lit conifer harvesting. I love getting our Christmas tree from the forest, it’s not only a family tradition, but helps the trees…