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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)
January 25, 2010
Jean Peak: East Face
Driving across the L.A. Basin on Saturday was like being transported to a new and wintery world. Snow levels were down around the 3000' mark across Southern California, putting (more)
January 21, 2010
Avalanche Education: Reluctance
One of the questions that occurred to me while taking an AIARE Level I avalanche class this past weekend was, "What took so long?" I actually think that's an intriguing enough (more)
