Ok, on the road headed for Austria, Switzerland where we’ll backcountry ski the Silvretta Traverwse! Drove over to Boulder yesterday afternoon and visited Brian Litz, co-founder of Backcountry Magazine and general man about the Colorado mountains. Got together with him, Gordon Banks, Pam Rice and Chris Webster for some of that Littelton Mexican food Brian kept promising. Pam and Chris got Capitol Peak skied last year. Chris only has two 14ers to go to have skied them all, and Pam has just over a dozen more to be the FIRST WOMAN to lay tracks on every 14,000-foot peak in Colorado!
Silvretta
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Is “military precision” an oxymoron? I hope not, as that’s the ideal I strive for (and usually miss by a kilometer) when getting ready for these overseas backcountry skiing adventures. It’s morning, I’m driving to Denver in six hours, and…
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Whew, that was a whirlwind Spring Break with the family. Ended up skiing five days in a row, rest day yesterday, perhaps a few pow turns later today. Leaving for Europe and Silvretta traverse all too soon, so I’ve been…
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Black Diamond Spot and Icon headlamps reviewed, great choices for night time backcountry skiing, biking, running or camping
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But in the interest of letting WildSnow’s daddy Lou Dawson continue to speak we figured it was time to publish this mini-profile. We cooked this up last year. It was done with a Dynafit emphasis for them to possibly publish. That didn’t happen, so we present it here. Apologies for the Dynafit bias.
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Mounting Silvretta ski bindings and other frame bindings is fairly easy, but you have to do everything with care or you’ll have problems while ski touring.
