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Leavitt Peak Groove

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I had so much fun a week ago Skiing Conness' Y-Couloir I decided Y not do another? And so Trevor Benedict and I headed all the way north to Sonora Pass to ski Leavitt Peak's (more)

Mount Conness: Y-Couloir

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Merry Fishmass everyone! That's right, fishing season is officially underway in the Eastern Sierra. Hope you took advantage of the open roads this past weekend and got out there (more)

Skiing San Diego

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It is a strange, strange thing to get in your car in L.A. and head south to go skiing. Stuck in traffic on the 405, I began to wonder what sort of fool's quest I was embarking (more)

The Deep Report

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I am standing in my kitchen watching raw footage from yesterday when I spontaneously break out into a wild, crazy jig. What am I doing, my son asks? The Powder Dance, I (more)

Charlton Peak Panorama

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Okay, so maybe 10,806' Charlton Peak isn't the most intimidating summit I've visited, or the most scenic. But it is a summit, damn it, and therefore I'm including it in my (more)

Chasing My Brother

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Really there's no better motivator than having a little brother who's faster than you in the gates. I spent damn near my entire young adulthood chasing him, and, well...it looks (more)

The Muir Disconnect

The Muir Disconnect

Seen from nearly any angle, Mount Muir's East Buttress would seem to be self-evidently unskiable. And then, from atop Thor Peak last April, Dave Braun and I saw what appeared to (more)

Mount Muir Panorama

Mount Muir Panorama

A very chilly December day atop 14,012' Mount Muir, enjoying the hair-raising exposure off the summit block. I wanted to get some photos of Muir and Trevor wanted to check Muir (more)

West Baldy Timelapse

West Baldy Timelapse

Wow, was this a trip down the rabbit hole! That Landscapes video inspired me to create my own timelapse. Naturally, I thought shooting from the top of West Baldy at sunset would (more)

White Mountain Panorama

White Mountain Panorama

California's White Mountain, elevation 14,252', offers a truly unique perspective of the High Sierra, allowing you to see essentially the whole of the range in one great (more)

Wakesurfing?

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Arr, my shoulders are sore, which can mean only one thing...I've been waterskiing at Lake Powell! My brother invited me to join him for a day of fun on the lake. Funny to say I (more)

Telescope Panorama

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Like its prominent neighbor to the south, San Jacinto Peak, Death Valley National Park's Telescope Peak is a desert summit offering nothing less than a mindblowing vertical (more)

Mammoth: Top to Bottom

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Yes, it's another entry in my critically-acclaimed 'Top-to-Bottom' video series, in which I go to the top of a ski area and ski all the way down to the bottom! What an absolute (more)

A Double Dose of Dana

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Looks like this is going to be it for me this year: a double descent of Mount Dana via Solstice and then Dana Couloirs. Tioga Pass opened on Saturday, so we hit the road and (more)

Split Mountain

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Huge, huge day on Split yesterday—we skied the north face right off the top of the north summit, then down into the Red Lake basin right beneath the east face and the (more)

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