backcountry skiing

When we heard Friday evening was comedy night at 5Point (Five Point) Film Festival here in Carbondale, Lisa and I agreed, that’s the time to go. After all, you see a few adventure films and sure some are elating and even get you on the edge of your seat, but laughing causes health. So there.

Had a couple of choices for parties last evening. Jordan White’s 14er skiing victory shindig was the one. After all, who can resist a festival where the doorway decorations are a quiver of Dynafit mounted backcountry skiing planks, along with the most worn out pair of AT ski boots on the planet?

News items about backcountry skiing, including an avalanche, Colorado items, and skiing the fourteeners, opinions about ski touring issues.

Ski crampon reviews for backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering

Jordan White backcountry skied all the Colorado 14,000 foot peaks in three years. He is the latest of a handful of ski mountaineers to climb and ski back down all 54 of the fourteeners. He began with Quandary Peak on May 4th 2006, finishing with Snowmass Mountain this past May 3rd, 2009.

Grieskogel is a medium sized ski peak in the western Stubai Alps, in the Larstiger mountains between Sellrain and Hochstubai. You reach it for backcountry skiing via the usual network of roads you find in this area, in this case reminding me of spring skiing on Independence Pass back in Colorado. I’d hooked up for today’s trip with Manfred Barthel, the Austrian alpinist elder I’ve come to know over the past few years. Manfred continues to amaze me with his skill and endurance, not to mention his amazing knowledge of the Alps. He seems to have a sixth sense of where the snow is good, the avy danger lower, or the