Trip Reports Backcountry

Ski touring and backcountry skiing in Colorado, Christmas as a remote cabin is fun for youngsters and adults.

Packing for a 2-week EU trip has been interesting. I got two medium sized luggage pieces so I can easily keep each under the 50 pound limit and have them pack nicely. They hook up so they’ll roll around together.

We backcountry skied our solid Colorado snowpack 4 days straight over Christmas. All in the West Elk Mountains a bit northwest of Crested Butte. Had some fun with the point-and-shoot digicam. Check it out. The atmosphere was doing crazy things…

Okay, it’s a 2008 Yamaha FX Nytro MTX (40th Anniversary Model so it has red accents), 4 stroke, 153 inch track, reverse, electric start. three cylinder fuel injected 1049cc screamer. Amazingly quiet, no 2-cycle exhaust issue,.

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…

Snow Dancing In Moab, Utah after a long fun winter of skiing in Colorado.