Skiing Savage Couloir and Savage Peak, Sawatch Mountains in Colorado, this is a very accessible ski tour that is highly recommended.

Crested Butte newspaper is full of flood angst, yesterday we ski slush that never got the nightly firm-up. Then today we head out for Mineral Point and what do we get? Full on blizzard conditions. Abused the Nytro driving on…

Had to deliver grandma Patricia (my mom) back to Crested Butte, so Louie and I loaded up our skis and the Nytro and headed over to the other side of the Elk Mountains. I’ve backcountry skied around Crested Butte quite…

Lynn Durr is a backcountry skiing peak off the Castle Creek Road out of Aspen. Once they plow the last mile or two of road, as they do every spring around this time, you can backcountry ski a quality 3,000 vertical feet from your tailgate. Our friend Bob Perlmutter got it more than once over the past week, so I figured we’d better get up there and see what was going on. Besides, nice place for son Louie’s first post-high-school backcountry skiing.

Congratulations to Frank Konsella, 4th person in history to ski all 54 Colorado 14,000 foot fourteener peaks, a ski touring adventure par none.

Once you learn the Hidden Passage to Yule Creek from the Marble Quarry Road in western Colorado, it’s like you’ve learned the secret handshake of the West Elk Mountains .