May 2005

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…

I got in a nice solo dawn patrol this morning in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado, on Mace Peak out of Castle Creek. This is looking down a cirque known as the "Ear." This time of year Mace Peak…

CDOT says the road damage is not as bad as first thought, latest is that the gates will open sometime today — in time for a fine weekend of backcountry skiing! Lou DawsonWildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson)…