On the ridge south of Colorado’s Pyramid Peak, a beautiful curving cirque leads to a 13,631 foot summit I’ve always known as Len Shoemaker Peak.
"pyramid"
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I’d been wanting this one for years. Had skied a subpeak of Sievers decades ago, but knew of beautiful lines that drop to Maroon Creek. Bob Perlmutter had the best one on his list — he’d been “looking at it…
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The alpine of the Aspen and Crested Butte area has been in prime backcountry skiing condition for days now, and it’s getting hit big. Pyramid Peak has been skied by two groups (one from the summit), Capitol Peak was skied…
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Splitboard snowboard mountaineering on Colorado Maroon Peaks, Elk Mountains, challenging and rewarding descents combine with wilderness travel for good adventure.
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Poem and story about climbing all Colorado 14,000 foot peaks, applies to skiing and snowboarding as well.
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I’m tempted to name today as 1/1/01 A.D., as in “After Davenport.” I just got an advance copy of Dav’s new book “Ski The 14ers” — and that’s (nearly) how earth shattering I believe this is as a mountaineering publication.…
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In his trip report we blogged yesterday, Chris Davenport wrote that over the winter he’d had “a pretty good run of luck in the mountains, a fact not in the least bit lost on me.” Chris was referring to his…
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Alaskan backcountry skiing from the Backside Glacier, excellent ski mountaineering.
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Louie skiing Kairns Chute down from Snowmass Resort. Saturday was last day open for Snowmass. This time of year the key to backcountry fun is access to the alpine. Snowmass provides good high elevation terrain, both backcountry and inbounds. We…
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I was saddened to hear about last Saturday’s death of a climber on South Maroon Peak, a well known central Colorado 14,000 footer (14er) near here. According to newspaper reports, 66 year old Dr. Sterling Smith was eating some trail…
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A few days ago we completed the Sangree M. Froelicher Hut print that 10th Mountain Huts commissioned and we blogged about a few days ago. It turned out fantastic, about five feet long and fourteen inches high, with enough detail…
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Backcountry skiing news from the year 2006, enjoy the history of touring.
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Mike Marolt, ski Mount Everest
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Stammberger was an imposing man with a weight lifter’s physique, thick Germanic accent, and the poise of a rugged individualist. He’d immigrated to the U.S. from Germany
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Skiing news, Colorado 14ers, Sanctified movie review thoughts and a few comments about Chris Davenport.
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For recent guidebook work I got a new scanner with better dynamic range (more detail in lightest and darkest areas), am having fun re-scanning some of my old prints. This one is the view of Colorado fourteeners South (left) and…
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Backcountry skiing on Hayden Peak near Aspen is a good bet for fun and mountain adventure.
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Hamish Gowans attempted to winter climb all Colorado 14,000 foot peaks in one calendar winter. He failed in his mission but did quite well in terms of what he did accomplish.
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From any high point around Crested Butte it is totally visible, covering almost the entire northern horizon. We planned on traveling from Marble to Crested Butte, skiing seven of Colorado’s
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Ski descent of El Diente Peak in Colorado, in 2003 before 14er skiing became popular, ski mountaineering and backcountry adventure.