snowmobile

On the ridge south of Colorado’s Pyramid Peak, a beautiful curving cirque leads to a 13,631 foot summit I’ve always known as Len Shoemaker Peak.

I’d heard a few weeks ago that Road 505 was plowed, so yesterday was our day to head up to an alternate ski touring zone out of the Fryingpan River drainage.

Ski touring news from the backcountry of April 2008, spring skiing and water bottles.

European secret wax for backcountry skiing eliminates desire for helicopters and snowmobiles. Lou DawsonWildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history…

If you’re skiing in a Swiss whiteout you might as well enjoy a magnum of Toblerone. Amazing how fast you can inhale several pounds of chocolate. Seems we’re in a fairly major storm cycle here in Switzerland. Thus, anything above…

Instead of nearly two hours drivetime (both ways) for the Marble area, we drove 10 minutes up to one of my favorite mellow fitness jaunts, that of Marion Gulch to the top of Sunlight Resort.