speaking of bicycles and ski touring

Props to Ned Gall for recently pedaling his mountain bike 150 miles from Bozeman to Cooke City (with his ski touring kit, through Yellowstone Park.!)

We met up for a day of powder skiing on Mt. Republic. :)

Even though this video hardly begins to give his project justice, I figured to share a few clips none the less. Thanks for the inspiration Ned.!

multisport adventuring in the Tetons

Phenomenal conditions down here around Jackson.!  more on this later.  :)

Corn Fest re-cap

Quintessential Corn Fest this weekend.  It snowed a foot (2 feet up high :), and the weather went partially blue.  Glorious to say the least.  (To the point where I won't even try and do it justice with recent landscape photos.)   The usual cast of characters convened, partied hard, and skied most everything in sight.  And as per usual, The Good Doctor out-skied us all.  Some would call him a machine,  but now I am leaning more toward the analogy of an astronaut.

the man, the myth, the legend.  The Good Doctor.
good luck keeping up with him!

Found some verglas (fun sticks!), carried 70m of rope over the mountain. :/  

tried a few new marg recipes,  Eldrick is scheduled to play this weekend, 

And Raz has broken down the odds.. 

Such a treat to have Wiley and the Big Picture crew in town again last week.  The level of freestyle skiing these guys ride at is Exceptional.

Here's a couple of video shorts of theirs, from around Cooke City earlier in the winter.

Lot's of big air inspiration- An awesome contrast to the world of ultra conservative ski guiding and mountaineering.

Helicopter landing at the Dump today (hope everyone is OK!)

Jim Beam is apparently now an official sponsor of the Corn Festival,

the local fire crew burned a few structures over at Canyon yesterday, Silver Falls recently fell down, and there is a Kiwi fellow who has been snowboarding many of the finer, steep local lines.  Good on ya mate.

Still a couple spots open in our upcoming Ski Mountaineering Course.  (April 24-27th)

Couldn't ask for better conditions out there; with a snowpack around 130% of average, good stability, and fresh powder.  :)

Stop by the BPG website for more information.  Hope you can join us!