Chris Davenport

The new pub is amazing, basically a coffee table 14er book with enough 14er ski porn to keep you amped for ten seasons. Chris emailed me and said they’re shooting for a Christmas release. That would indeed be the “hot track,” but knowing Chris Davenport I wouldn’t expect anything less!

Shew, was working my rosy cheeks off this morning like one of Santa’s little elves, then the “Internet” light goes out on the DSL modem. What? Turned out a big Quest fiber optic line got cut, and much of Western…

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…

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.

Steep ski movie, review for backcountry skiers and ski mountaineers by Polly McLean.

A few thoughts about the Steep movie, how it will portray modern ski alpinism and mountaineering, rather than heli-skiing.