Among the Aspen area’s offerings of excellent guide services, I’ve always been impressed by the focus and incredibly solid safety record of Scott Messina’s Aspen Alpine Guides (AAG). Though the years, Scott became the word in guiding the 10th Mountain…
rock climbing
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When the skiing gets too rough (this year probably in a week or so), we usually hang up our planks for about twelve weeks and enjoy summer.
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Latest incarnation of NTN telemark binding. Holy grail? For the past several years much talk has occurred in the telemark community about various new revolutionary tele bindings. Much appeared to be just that; talk that was more mist than reality…
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Press release out today, our beloved Independence Pass is closed for the season. The goods are up there. Terrific backcountry skiing when it snows, incredible rock climbing and hiking if we get more Indian summer. But is Indy really closed?…
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I drove down to Telluride last week (on the way to meet Chris Davenport) and joined up with Jason Troth for an attempt on El Diente peak. I’d done the regular route several times, and wanted to try something different…
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Through the lens of history “Death Zone” was not at all depressing, but rather a supremely interesting view into the past. More, it was exciting to see that the climbing done by this team was an advanced form of Himalayan alpinism that involved tackling a monster wall, without a larger expedition
