Davenport on Longs Peak, January 19 2007. Neal Beidleman photo, use by permisson only. It’s 9:30 PM, Chris Davenport just called with the news. He, along with incredibly strong and experienced ski alpinists Neal Beidleman, Nick Devore and Danny Brown,…

Continued retrospective reports from Dynafit hosted trip in Europe last week: Okay, Monte Cevedale in Italy is not really an epic, more like a relaxing glacier walk. At least this is true most of the time. Today the wind intervened.…

I was cheering for Davenport’s team today on Longs Peak, Colorado. But alas, they climbed into one of those typical Longs Peak wind events. According to Neal Beidleman: “… Along with Ted Mahon, Christian Pondella, Jon Hagman and Chris Davenport…

(Continued retrospective trip reports from my European journey.) Still a bit jet lagged, but I’m not going to let that get in the way of my first tour on a European glacier. Fritz has skied here, but that was years…

Hi all, after an epic 20+ hour travel “day” I’m back in Colorado. Need to thank the Barthels for their generous hosting. They opened their house to me, kept me fed, and made sure I got plenty of stories and…

Back this evening from the Dynafit event. It was radical, and they have an excellent and reworked product line for this coming sales season that’s going to be fun blogging about. Did quite a bit of tourist action as well…