Trip report from a summer hike on Mount Baker’s Easton Glacier to cool off and escape wildfire smoke.

Review of First Ascent Instant Coffee, a delicious if pricey brew that tastes as good as the real thing.

On Totally Deep Podcast 89, Doug sits down with Denali SAR volunteer Luke Demuth and first time Denali ski mountaineer Mike Poleto.

Landscapes shift when free of snow. Features morph: become larger and smaller, more or less ominous. A ravine we call a death trap is flooded with delicate purple petals.

Skiing the Crestone Peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the early days.

Interview with Scott Rinckenberger who, along with Trevor Kostanisch, was the first to ski Washington state’s five volcanoes in five days.