Cloudveil

It’s happening, we’re here, we’re healthy, and we have skis. A photo trip report from the last five days or so. Backcountry in Elk Mountains of western Colorado. Wow, a rare actual ski shot of the blogmeister himself! Thanks to…

In Bad Heaering at the moment, packing for the approximately 2 hour drive over to the Dachstein. Sun is out and the surrounding mountains are glowing white with promise. Tough knowing what to bring to these European “huts,” as many…

We drove to Aschau, a fringe town of mega-resort Kitzbuhel. Plan was to utilize the piste in case snow conditions were too horrendous because of the foehn winds. Plan worked, we had a nice tour and everyone had fun skiing…

This list useful for holiday season shopping we’ve included some of the newer ski touring product we think fits.

Got out yesterday to enjoy our amazingly stable central Colorado backcountry snow. While pockets of instability no doubt exist, much of our mid-alpine snowpack is a bonded birthday cake topped by fluffy cotton candy — yielding that blissful experience that’s…

News roundup covers Hillary Clinton going skiing, more from the backcountry and mountaineering world with lots of information about ski touring.