SierraDescents | Category | Skiing
November 26, 2025
Baden-Powell Again
I know, I tend to rhapsodize when the San Gabriels have snow, but hear me out: perched as they are atop desert, city, and sea, is there really a better place to ski? My son and (more)
November 23, 2025
The Throoping Will Continue…
Until morale improves. Although, actually, morale is pretty good right now. The 2 is open and... what on Earth is happening out there, people? It's madness. Madness! But (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)
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)
June 24, 2025
The Granite Lakes Cirque
I just need to get lost more often. While attempting to ski False White's east face a few days earlier, Dave Braun and I veered off course but got a surprise look at False (more)
June 20, 2025
False-False White
False White is of course the marvelously obvious mountain that pops into view up Tioga Pass Road at Ellery Lake. For backcountry skiers, False White's looming east face is an (more)
June 18, 2025
University Pass
On June 6 I returned to Onion Valley, intending to ski the "official" University Pass. But as it turns out, there is some disagreement as to which col is actually UP. So which (more)
June 1, 2025
University Peak – Hourglass Couloir
I am a Southern Sierra skier; I know there are interesting parts of the range northward, but it is the south, with its towering spires, epic cirques, and preposterous (more)
May 27, 2025
Mammoth Crest – Crystal Chute
Crystal Chute is one of the closest technical objectives in the Mammoth Lakes basin, and probably a solid entry point if you're looking to dabble in steep skiing along the Mammoth (more)
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