Fired up to see a dusting of snow on my deck this morning. It is just a tease but Boreal is blowing snow and it signifies a change in weather. It may be awhile before we see forecasts like this one I saved from last winter…..HEAVY SNOW WILL REACH THE EASTERN SIERRA THIS AFTERNOONWITH INTENSE [...]
Posts tagged alaska snowboarding
First Snow in Tahoe
Alaska-Deeper Dream Day
4/24
Today was the pinnacle of a lifetime of snowboarding for me. Hope was starting to slip away earlier in the day.. The wind has stripped almost all aspects of snow. We finally make it to the one bowl we think is holding snow and the lines we want to hit are heavier then we thought [...]
Alaska-Deeper, Mt McConkey
I have never been one to name first descents but now that I am hiking and riding these unnamed and unclimbed peaks I have started to name the special ones. Since Shane’s death I have been looking for one for him. We moved camp to a new zone that is a series of 6 peaks [...]
AK-Deeper, A Big One Goes Down
Ticked a big one of today. It was the North West Face of the biggest peak in the area and has been on my mind since first seeing it 12 days ago. The face was clearly holding the best snow in the area and was one of the few spined up faces we have seen [...]
AK-Deeper, “Mission Accomplished”
We are finally out of the mountains after 27 days camped on the ice. It was the most incredible experience of my. The challenges were large but the rewards were larger. In 20 years of snowboarding I have never felt highs like I felt on this trip.
The trip was an experiment with a lot of [...]