October 30, 2025
THR Podcast: Fire & Ice
About a week after the Palisades Fire, Jason Albert, managing editor at The High Route, reached out via email. That led to a short interview, which was a nice distraction in what (more)
October 27, 2025
More Throop
Here's Matt D working his way down Throop's north gullies today. We ascended from Dawson saddle, summited, skied probably a thousand vertical feet, and then exited back up to the (more)
October 22, 2025
Baden-Powell’s Northwest Ridge
The glades along the sunny side of BP's northwest ridge looked irresistible from Dawson Saddle on Monday, so I went back yesterday to give it a try. Alas those gleaming fields (more)
October 20, 2025
Throoping in October
The one and only Al Preston talked me into leaving my sofa for Throop Peak today, and unlike last week's Pinos foray, there's real skiing to be had in the San Gabriels. First, (more)
October 15, 2025
Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
If I were making a list of things I never expect to do, skiing the SoCal backcountry in October would be close to the top. Well, scratch that one off the list! Here's Mount (more)
October 5, 2025
Paseo Miramar
"I will wash my bike tomorrow," I said to myself. And then when I got home and I saw my legs, I realized, "Actually, I will be washing everything tonight." Everything: bike, (more)
September 16, 2025
It Was a Thumpin’
Impatient with fall and wanting to validate the steep-skiing theories I devised while experimenting on my 45° ramp this past summer, I drove up the 395 yesterday in search of (more)
September 9, 2025
Tunisia
Tunisia is probably not a country you give a great deal of thought, which is interesting, if you think about it. The country sits at the apex of the African continent, at the (more)
August 21, 2025
What I Learned on The Ramp
Year after year, my obsession with deconstructing the classic pedal turn (as executed by its original inventors, Patrick Vallencant and Anselme Baud) has ended in (more)
August 13, 2025
Waterline to Abineau
Wherever you start from, it's a long haul to the end of Flagstaff's Waterline Road—but wow what a view. The road tops out at 10,320', dropping you right at the base of (more)
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