SierraDescents | 2010
June 5, 2010
TPR Opens
Hooray—sort of. It's probably not news to you by now, but Tioga Pass Road has opened for the 2010 season as of 8 a.m. Saturday. Bummer of course is that this year's (more)
June 1, 2010
U-Notch Ice Dancing
Here’s what I was thinking: I was nine hours deep on a ski attempt of North Palisade’s U-Notch Couloir, and all was going well until the easy snow I was climbing abruptly (more)
May 8, 2010
Last Days at Baldy
Looks like this weekend is it for skiing at Mt. Baldy resort. I was there yesterday to enjoy one last day on my pass, closing out what has been a surprisingly strong year at the (more)
May 2, 2010
San Gorgonio Mountain
I'm going to have to make the drive out to the San Bernardino Mountains more often! Al and I skied San Gorgonio Mountain yesterday, and aside from a little wind up top, we were (more)
April 24, 2010
Snow Creek
If there is one singularly conspicuous omission in the SierraDescents repertoire, it is unquestionably a ski descent of San Jacinto Peak via Snow Creek. There are many fine peaks (more)
April 18, 2010
Scarpa Skookum Review
I was under the impression Scarpa's new Skookum was a Frankenboot of parts borrowed from other Scarpa models in an evil-genius attempt to create a downhill performance monster. (more)
April 8, 2010
MSR Reactor
Probably the most critical comment I can make about MSR's Reactor backpacking stove is that it sat unused and unopened inside my closet for nearly two years. Winner of a 2007 (more)
March 31, 2010
West Baldy
This past weekend some friends and I took a professional videographer up West Baldy to try to nab some footage of Southern California backcountry skiing for a Ski Channel (more)
March 22, 2010
The Couloir to Nowhere
I first saw it in January 2008. My friend Bill Henry and I were climbing Mount Baden-Powell for a modest day tour in Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains. As we stood atop (more)
March 1, 2010
Telluride: Top To Bottom
I'd been thinking about getting this shot ever since I first bought my Contour helmet cam: a continuous clip skiing Telluride from the top of the Revelation chairlift, elevation (more)
February 24, 2010
The San Juan Snowpack
Telluride sits in the northern San Juan Mountains—a part of the Rockies notorious for its unstable snowpack. A big, ugly beast of a natural avalanche put an exclamation (more)
February 16, 2010
San Antonio Ridge Traverse
Ah, where to begin? In the immortal words of Tech and Talk's Chad, 'A bad snake charmer always blames his snake.' So I guess I can't blame the snake. I knew, going in, that a (more)
February 9, 2010
Avy Education: Motivation
Following up on my post about my reluctance to take an avalanche course, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about what finally motivated me to bite the bullet and go take (more)
February 7, 2010
The San Jacinto Report
Maybe one of the things to remember about an El Nino year is that the storms love to ambush the Southland. I don't think anyone was expecting the rain intensity we saw Friday (more)
February 1, 2010
Telegraph Peak: North Face
The Problem with Telegraph Peak is that it's way too easy to access. The typical San Gabriel Mountain approach serves as a fine gatekeeper to most of the range's technical (more)
