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March 7, 2006
Sue Burak: ‘Nervous’
If you haven't been following Avy forecaster Sue Burak's updates on the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center website, now might be a good time to pay attention. The Sierra has been (more)
March 5, 2006
A Mammoth Blizzard
Snow, snow, and more snow. It was one of those days at Mammoth where you needed a shovel to dig yourself out. Friday the snow was coming down so hard the air could actually (more)
February 28, 2006
Okay, it Rained—a Lot
Word from Mount Baldy is that the ski area received a staggering 8-10 inches of rain. A little colder, and that one storm could have turned the season around down here in the San (more)
February 19, 2006
Tuttle Creek Shakedown
I've been trying to think of a good motto for this website, and one of my ideas, which seems especially apt right now, is "We make the mistakes so you don't have to." My trip (more)
February 6, 2006
Telluride Powder
We'd been waiting a long time for a day like this: a foot of fresh snow overnight and it just kept on dumping. The air was alive with snow all day. Here, my brother Yuri Lewicky (more)
January 9, 2006
A 10,000′ Ski Descent?
Finally made the pilgrimage to Mammoth this past weekend. Coverage was spectacular—Mammoth Mountain is claiming they've currently got the deepest base of any U.S. (more)
December 15, 2005
ESAC: The Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center
If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that avalanche information is conspicuously absent on SierraDescents.com's pages. This is certainly not because I don't take (more)
December 7, 2005
A Look Ahead
The Sierra Ski Season is off to a less-than-outstanding start, with generally minimal snowfall thus far, and some nasty instability setting up due to shallow coverage. While (more)
November 11, 2005
Welcome to SierraDescents!
It's been a long time coming! When I first moved to California, merging my writing and photography into a website about backcountry skiing in the Sierra Nevada seemed a fine (more)
August 28, 2005
Langley – Cottonwood Lakes Loop
Looking for a spectacular high-altitude day hike in the Southern Sierra? Mount Langley via Horseshoe Meadows is an excellent choice (more)
