snowpits and powder skiing

self portrait, today in YNP

 Somehow this film had eluded me until today.

What does this have to do with Cooke City, backcountry skiing or the Absaroka Beartooth?
Maybe nothing.  (but I could give 100 reasons).

And oh yeah, apparently Jay and a buddy sent Granite Peak last week.!
A remarkable idea.  Good on ya fellas.
Wonder if they took their skis to the top?

As seen last May.

If any of you rope guns are keen to drag me up the mixed steps in that SW direct (for a ski descent) later this spring, I’d take a few photos…

A fresh perspective.

Incredibly good to be back in Silver Gate.  

What's new?!  

Everything.  And nothing.

Tour de Hyalite

Super Bowl party up Hyalite yesterday.

Skied a rendition of the classic Hyalite Pk. to Mount Blackmore project.

Exquisite conditions. (read:  stable snow ;)

Got into a few of these.

home stretch.!

Super fun outing.  Lots of interesting route finding, with infinite options/ variations.

Highly recommended.

EKG

As much as I appreciate the central Wasatch (and the AMGA ;)

they are nowhere near as cool as Cooke City, nor Silver Gate.

As Mingus (?) once said, ‘you gotta dig, to dig. ya dig?’

please do not read this website for the next week.

(the editor is out of town ;)

one step sideways

Sometimes you have to take one step backwards, in order to take two forward.

photo of my good friend Brad Makoff, taken today by another fantastic friend Todd Glew.  

classic Cardiac Ridge

a horse that farts will never tire

an old Indian proverb

Down here in Salt Lake... trying to regain my sanity (and sense of humor?).

Cooke City to Petropavlovsk

Just hooked up on a ticket to Kamchatka!

off the grid

Planning a short hiatus from the Chronicle, 

whilst I participate in an AMGA Ski Guide Course down around Salt Lake City.

So if any of you locals are reading this, HOLd Down the Fort.!

And for the rest of you armchair idealists, you can keep current here.

Psyched to have Ben around this winter.

Or you can always consult The Good Doctor, preferably up Republic Creek, 

and/or over a wee dram of Single Malt.