SierraDescents | 2009
May 29, 2009
Born To Run
Christopher McDougall's Born to Run arrived on my desk with impeccable timing. I'd just finished a mammoth 19-hour climb and ski of California's Mount Tyndall, and while nursing (more)
May 22, 2009
Phil Leacock Memorial Trail & Loop
Los Angeles has a wealth of good metro-area hikes, though finding them can be challenging. One of my favorites is the Phil Leacock Memorial Trail, which connects Pacific (more)
May 19, 2009
San Antonio Ski Hut Work Party
I've got to hand it to the folks who manage the San Antonio Ski Hut: not only have they rebranded work as fun, but they actually get you to pay them while you do it. Tom Sawyer (more)
May 9, 2009
Baldy Freak Show (aka: Skiing the North Face)
Coming off my Tyndall adventure, I thought it would be nice to do an easy tour this weekend...so I decided to ski Mount Baldy's north face. Okay, maybe my difficulty scale got (more)
May 2, 2009
Tyndall in a Day
The plan was simple: climb and ski Mount Tyndall in a single day. There were good reasons to try—and good reasons not. But it is the lot of the occasionally ambitious ski (more)
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