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Archives for January, 2009

Wasatch Walk About, Round two

Jeremy Jones

The cool thing about the mountains is that the possibilities are endless.  As I reach one pinnacle the next one looms off in the distance.  This has been going on for twenty years and has yet to let up.
I came to the Wasatch to hit the Hypodermic Needle but along the way the needle has [...]

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The Wasatch Walk About, Round One

Jeremy Jones

I have been going to the Wasatch for years.  All the trips have been “work” trips involving sales meetings, demo’s etc.  All my riding has been done at resorts but along the way I have compiled a growing list of lines I have wanted to hit but that can only be accessed on foot.
One line [...]

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Tahoe Camping Mission

Jeremy Jones

After a few weeks of being stuck inside of resort boundaries because of extreme avalanche danger it was time to head back to sunny and stable California.  A few years ago I was out of things to ride in Tahoe.  That was until I ditched my sled and started hiking the harder to reach zones.  [...]

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TGR Backcountry Safety Workshop

Jeremy Jones

Grand Targee Resort, WY  The idea to start TGR came in the long nights holed up in tents at the Heli pad on Thompson Pass and was later funded by long summers spent commercial fishing of the coast of Alaska.  From the beginning the goal has been to take riding to new levels in unexplored [...]

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Jackson Hole gets Attacked by Avalanches

Jeremy Jones

TETON VILLAGE, WY. Welcome to Xmas week in Jackson Hole. Mogul fields sliding to the ground, an in bounds avalanche death, the mid mountain lodge getting hit by an avi, 60 foot debris piles on the pass,  a snow cat getting partially buried cutting a cat track,  10 foot crowns everywhere you look,  the never [...]

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