backcountry skiing

Using Friends Hut for a day tour is a nice way to enjoy ski mountaineering in Elk Mountains of Colorado near Aspen and Crested Butte, stop at Pine Creek Cookhouse.

Working on a trip report to be posted later today. For now, I just want to thank everyone for the fantastic comments on the past week’s blog posts. If you have not checked the comments, now is the time! Great…

Preliminary avalanche report but it sounds legit. Let’s pray that Romeo and all the other competitors are okay.

We learned a few days ago that a well known local, John Seigle, died in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in France. I didn’t know John well, I’d met him a few times when he was working with our town…

Cougar Milk was the backcountry skiing drink of the 1930s – 1950s, was originally known as Moose Milk.

Near Marble, Colorado today. Heading up one of the avalanche paths, amazing evidence of destruction from last winter’s record slides. Nope, it’s not a yucca plant, it’s a busted aspen tree… I’ve seen many trees nuked, but never one that…