But even the darkest cloud has the potential to produce beautiful powder. Thus, sooner or later I suspect we’ll see a movie about Davenport’s fourteener project. I’m sure it will be enjoyable, even award winning — and perhaps better than the original cut by focusing even more on the personal, spiritual and wilderness aspects of Colorado ski alpinism.
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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,…
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Backcountry skiing and ski touring news, including magazines and telemark.
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Powder magazine’s long term devotion to skiing is something that’s always meant a great deal to me, but I have to admit it was a surprise to be included in their “48 Greatest Skiers of Our Time” 35th anniversary issue…
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A crew of local young men here in the Aspen, Colorado area put together a successful Denali ski expedition. One of the crew, a second generation Aspenite named Danny Brown, created an incredible presentation about their trip and premiered it last evening.
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Up here on the northern half of spaceship earth we are definitely in the dog days, but they’re having at it down south. In more ways than one. I was amused by this ditty from Ingrid Backstrom about the interesting…