SierraDescents | Category | Skiing
February 9, 2009
San Jacinto Peak: East Face
Can this possibly be Southern California backcountry (more)
January 13, 2009
Mount Harwood — Northeast Ridge
My first official trip report of the winter season is a bittersweet one. In fairness it might be best to call this a climbing trip report, rather than skiing—though we did (more)
January 5, 2009
Skiing Baldy Bowl
5:30 a.m. I'm up before the alarm clock and out of the house, hitting I-10 east to Mountain Avenue and Mount Baldy, the nearest of the SoCal summits. The plan is a no-frills (more)
December 27, 2008
Baden-Powell
Bill and I drove up Highway 2 from Wrightwood to Vincent Gap for a little Baden-Powell action today. BP is one of those curious Southland Peaks that occasionally allows (more)
July 29, 2008
North Peak…Skiing…July?
I was browsing the message boards at thebackcountry.net when I happened to see a new "North Peak" post. I clicked on it, thinking someone had posted a climbing trip report (North (more)
May 11, 2008
Williamson Still Hard
This just in: Climbing Mt. Williamson is still Hard. Really Hard. SierraDescents personally verified this yesterday, with an ascent and ski of the south-facing couloir between Mt. (more)
April 27, 2008
Birch Mountain Marathon
Saturday I skied Birch Mountain with a group of skiers from the Angeles Sierra Club's ski mountaineer's section. I don't get the opportunity to ski in groups that often, thanks (more)
April 21, 2008
Williamson: Notes from the Field
Today's Notes from the Field come courtesy of my friend Bill, whose adventures on Mount Williamson served as an early inspiration to me on my own quest to ski California's (more)
April 15, 2008
Tandem Skiing
Flagstaff had a great ski season this year, though, like California, the traditionally-big March ended up high and dry. Still, there's enough snow to ski on the mountain right (more)
April 10, 2008
Lone Pine Peak – East Couloir
Sometimes as a writer you just don't know how much information to give. It would be easy to present this as a dashing adventure in which I fearlessly charged into the unknown and (more)
