Trip Reports Backcountry

Poly crossing the Roaring Fork "creek" on the way to Independence Pass backcountry skiing. Kind of like the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest? A moderate weather system hit Colorado today, so backcountry skiing is out for us. We need a…

Reports filtered in yesterday from Indy. Skiers found a compacted and nicely frozen spring snowpack that yielded skiable lines all day if you picked your exposures. We skied up there today, and sure enough, we’re able to leisurely ski various…

Andrew McLean reports that Canadian backcountry skier and randonnee racer Greg Hill has completed his “Odyssey” project of climbing and skiing one million vertical feet in one year! “It was something like 150 days,” reports McLean about Hill’s feat, “with…

I got in a nice solo dawn patrol this morning in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado, on Mace Peak out of Castle Creek. This is looking down a cirque known as the "Ear." This time of year Mace Peak…

Bob Perlmutter backcountry skiing on The Tuning Fork, Torrys Peak, Colorado. Had a nice backcountry ski descent today, big 3,000 vertical foot snow face on the north side of Torreys Peak, Colorado. Known as the "Big Old Stripe Of Snow"…

First Ski Descent on Cathedral Peak East Face, Elk Mountains, Colorado.