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The easy snow along Highway 2’s Waterman Crest is all but gone now, melted out by late April’s furious heat waves (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 2 CommentsThe easy snow along Highway 2’s Waterman Crest is all but gone now, melted out by late April’s furious heat waves (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 2 CommentsTruly, Northern Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks are a little slice of backcountry heaven. It’s a small mountain, relatively (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 1 CommentWith Tioga Pass Road now open to the east Yosemite gate (and intermittently all the way through to the Central Valley), this past weekend (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 3 CommentsI knew I loved to ski Mountain High East, but I had forgotten why: MHE offers by far Southern California’s best intermediate/cruiser skiing (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 7 CommentsHere’s one of the Holy Grails of Southern California skiing: I finally got to ski Mount Waterman, which opened this past weekend (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 4 CommentsMotivated by forecasts of ultra-low snow levels and dreams of cold-smoke glory, Trevor and I returned yesterday to the San Jacinto Wilderness (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 14 CommentsYou should have seen the look on my wife’s face when I brought out my skis this past weekend. For the record, this was 100% Al’s doing, not mine (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 5 CommentsAfter a long break, I made my way back to the Sierra’s Palisades Crest for a climb and ski of Mount Sill. My expectations were modest on this one (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 1 CommentI haven’t skied anything remotely like this since Mount Muir six years ago. This is normally just a giant cliff face. When we crested Russell-Carillon Col and saw (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 1 CommentA few quick notes: jeez, the wind was bad on this one, but the trip itself was great. This is a new format designed to better feature my photography. Yes, I know a lot is broken right now (more...)...
Posted in Skiing | 1 CommentWhen there is snow, SierraDescents is Andy Lewicky's California backcountry skiing and mountaineering website. Without snow, sierradescents becomes an ill-tempered hiking and climbing blog.
Pray for snow.
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