backcountry skiing

Colorado backcountry skiing mission near Aspen. We headed out to enjoy some of our amazing early season goods, and returned with large smiles.

We’ll, after more than a year of abuse we finally found a Canon A620 weakness. It was cold the other day in the backcountry, and my new Black Diamond Covert pack didn’t have external camera storage so I stuck the A620 in the vest pocket of my soft shell.

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…

isa wants a pug. I couldn’t find one, but she can have a poodle if I can have a cat (a feline with a 457 ci V8, actually).

Interesting report from backcountry skiers who were out today in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. Wintry storm 7 (WS7)dropped up to a foot of fresh, but the snow bonded so poorly in places that it was sluffing and point…