Rick Wyatt to left, holding forth with some funny tale about his life as a mountain man, Andrew to right. Rick is known as the guy who in 1982 did a ski descent of the Grand Teton using leather nordic…
Trip Reports Backcountry
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Open for comments. Saturday at last, and not just any weekend… We headed up to the Marble area here in central Colorado. The snowpack is amazingly solid, so we felt good about dancing through the intense avalanche terrain of this…
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Aspen’s community avalanche safety class is this weekend. Our family attended the class session last evening, and we’ll be out in the field today. The evening seminar was taught by Hallsted Morris from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). This…
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Book signing yesterday at the Colorado Ski Museum in Vail. As always, incredibly fun to chat with all you backcountry folk who showed up. The variety of people interested in ski touring always amazes me.
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Marble Peak, Colorado got about 6 inches of fresh overnight, was dense warm punk that skied well and was pretty stable avalanche wise. A few folks were skiing the big bowl avalanche path up on Marble Peak, we opted for…
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Central Colorado backcountry is skiing well. We were in the Marble area yesterday. Snowpack is bridged, still has weak layers down near the ground, so we’re sticking to the trees. Nice to ski backcountry pow with zero avalanche danger —…
