Trip Reports Backcountry

Lynn Durr is a backcountry skiing peak off the Castle Creek Road out of Aspen. Once they plow the last mile or two of road, as they do every spring around this time, you can backcountry ski a quality 3,000 vertical feet from your tailgate. Our friend Bob Perlmutter got it more than once over the past week, so I figured we’d better get up there and see what was going on. Besides, nice place for son Louie’s first post-high-school backcountry skiing.

Congratulations to Frank Konsella, 4th person in history to ski all 54 Colorado 14,000 foot fourteener peaks, a ski touring adventure par none.

Once you learn the Hidden Passage to Yule Creek from the Marble Quarry Road in western Colorado, it’s like you’ve learned the secret handshake of the West Elk Mountains .

This just in from the Dav, thought I should pass it along. Pretty cool, if you ask me, what an amazing dream trip for a ski mountaineer. During our last trip to Europe I was hoping to at least ski…

By sticking with a strong mission statement that emphasizes values such as balance, humility and respect, 5 Point film festival screened a mix of films that with a few small exceptions went beyond the plotless hucking flick we get bombarded with from nearly every corner.

…turning to and fro…here comes more snow…it’s May 10th ‘ya know, want to go? Here’s what we’ve got to show…. Unbelievable, it snowed at least another foot last night in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. We were there, now…