What a difference a year makes. Last season there was so much snow during the holidays that the mountain was closed for days at a time and we hardly snowboarded because the mountains were falling down all around us. This year there was very little snow but the whole mountain was open and you could [...]
Posts tagged backcountry
High and Dry in Jackson Hole
Winter is coming….
September 1st always hits me square in the head. June, July, or August are irrelevant to me. Winter seems decades away until September hits. “Wake Up,!” it says, “Winter is coming!” And in fact it is. 51 Days until my earliest powder day in Tahoe. 89 Days until my home mountain, Squaw Valley opens.
This [...]
Deeper- The Alps Project
Europe has been a annual stop for me since fist coming here over fifteen years ago. From the first time I laid eyes on these mountains until now I have been blown away at the size. Stack Jackson Hole on top of Whistler or times Snowbird by three or four and you get the idea.
Contests, [...]
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 [...]