SWEET!!! Looks like I'm going to have to come out of retirement...

That was us. My first time in Sonora Pass area -- great skiing, even if it never did soften up that day. Nice work on the tele boards! :)

The full film is not on YouTube, but there is a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KETvzv997WM

I'm going to put together an HD instant download through Amazon, but that won't be available...

Sorry to be such a stranger lately, but I hate to post unless I've got something interesting to share. I think this qualifies:

My Southern California ski mountaineering documentary, 'The Couloir...

Hey Everyone,

The San Gabriel Mountains will be represented at the Ski Channel Film Festival in Denver this year. My short documentary, "The Couloir to Nowhere" will be screening Jan 29, at 5pm...

Jeff,

Sorry I'll be out of town that week! I hope you schedule more classes like this in the future.

Andy

Hi everyone,

I've just changed my site's hosting to a new server, and I'd like to test it out with a big burst of traffic.

So if you're in the mood, we've got a new trip report up on skiing Mt....

That was the best view of the Palisades I've yet seen. Such inspiring terrain! View alone was worth all the suffering. :)

Tarkman's earlier Birch TR motivated me to join a group headed up Birch Mountain this past weekend in the Eastern Sierra:

http://www.sierradescents.com/skiing/birch/2008/southeast-face-01b.jpg
...

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39680&d=1206488102

Okay, sure, the badwaters and telescope and the vert and the thorny things and the close-out canyon were all very...

Looks like it's going to be a fun spring! Nice Work!!

Nice to see Baden-Powell in the news!

Thanks for posting the photo of Baldy's NF. It's been a weird year for north-facing aspects in the San Gabriels. Snow just froze solid and won't soften. At...

Thanks everyone--glad to share some SoCal snow with you! :cool:

Finally got to cross one of my most-wanted summits off the list last sunday: Cucamonga Peak, in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Cucamonga stands at the extreme southeast edge of the range.

In the...

:yourock:

Nice to Langley on the Board !!

Just ask the Girly Man

Get some for me!

For me, watching Steep's vintage ski extreme footage was a big thrill, but I also found the athlete profiles very interesting. Kind of like looking in the mirror, in an (admittedly) small way.

In...

As a sea level resident who regularly day trips up to 14K and has no access to a hyperbaric chamber, here are my own completely unscientific crackpot theories:

1) Drink lots of alcohol before your...

Proper!


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Nice!

Way to get off the beaten track w/Feather. I've been coveting that line for a while now.

Thanks everyone!

I forgot to mention that the Conness region looked terrific from N. Peak.

I'd bet the skiing would be excellent on Conness glacier this weekend if the weather cooperates.
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North Peak’s N. Couloir is an ice climb (see http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.php?object_id=71854) that deserves to be taken seriously. The presence of ice, plus the sustained steepness,...

Uh, I think you've got the wrong plateau here. This is obviously a photo of California's most impressive mountain...Mt. Muir.

:cool:

Yeah, the snow (once it consolidates) will make for good skiing for a while on Bloody--if you can get to it.

Thanks for reminding me how much snow was on Red Slate. I remember seeing those shots...

Hasn't been much for me to write about in the Sierra this year, but I did get to visit Bloody Couloir for a little Bike-n-Ski:
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Richard P's photo of Whitney's N. Chute is the yearbook shot for the south sierra's season, isn't it?

Just so bleak. But maybe late spring has a surprise for us???
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Now that's Steep!

If you are into the outdoors, you will be hard pressed to find a better place to live.

Also an unexpected perk: quick access to a big city (Phoenix: 2hrs), a ski area (Snow Bowl: 7mi), fantastic...

Check the updates on the Eastern Sierra Avy site:

http://www.esavalanche.org

This is not a typical friendly Sierra snowpack year. I recommend following ESAC's advisories closely to see how...

If so, they're my kind of Christians.

http://www.sierradescents.com/spider.jpg

:)

With the new season underway, I thought it was high time to post this important link on the effects of drugs on Spider's webs. Apologies if it has been seen before:
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Ms. Swanson is a woman of few words, isn't she? :)

And I'm surprised they didn't run any of your photos, but it's nice to see some local press on the socal backcountry scene. Cool!

As an SC fan, I must grudgingly give the Bruins credit...

they played a hell of a game and deserved the win. Holding USC's offense to 7 points? Crazy!

The Big Island Rocks!

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

Thanks--that's a great idea. We'll see if they still honor their repair/replace policy.

Okay, so it's summer...but that doesn't mean I don't have important things to post about.

Went hiking in the SoCal mts a week ago, up a nasty little rock called Strawberry Peak. Got off-route, in...

Love the photos!

Did you have any contingency plan in case the lightning headed your way?

The Gulch gets steep enough (~35 degrees) to where a fall would be nasty on hard snow, but I assumed these guys roped up for training purposes. Can't see why you'd want to be on such a short leash,...

Sweet TR!

Glad to see I'm not the only poor soul clunking around the b.c. in alpine boots.

:smile:

Looks like this is going to be the end of the season for me, but what a finish: a 7000 vertical foot July ski descent of 14,162' Mount Shasta via Avalanche Gulch, the slightly-too-popular classic...

Touching the Void.

you should be able to find it at most vid stores. It's must-see, if you want climbing/mountaineering genre.

Aak...you've already seen that. All right, try the other end of...

My father does these and he's very good. He's also an expert skier, and focuses on treating athletes, college, pro, and amateur.

He doesn't like cadaver grafts. Convinced there's a significant...

Glad to repay the favor. Bullet's TR's and photos were a big help to me in knowing what to expect. Let me know if you do go next year. Might want to join you--I'll have forgotten how much work it...

aka:

"The My 14er is bigger than your 14er TR"

"The Absurd Tromping Around in the Desert TR"

"The Complete and Utter Destruction of Andy TR"

"The I Just Want to Go Home TR"

That's a clever bit of javascript I stole from my best friend's website. The script looks for images with a special prefix or suffix (to identify it as a thumbnail), then swaps it with the full-size...

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm happy to be able to share the TR. It was such an incredible experience to get up there and ski that line after looking at it and dreaming about it for so many...

Sweet TR! Love the photos of Red Slate Couloir. I've got to put that one on my list.

Here's a line I've been wanting to ski for a long time.

Mount Langley is California's southernmost fourteener. It's right next door to Whitney, which draws all the crowds and fanfare.

Seen...

I second the vote for Shasta. Here's my TR from Hotlum Wintun Ridge end of July last year.

This year can only be better!

I was skiing the mount Baldy backcountry on April 7 when I ran into someone named Chris, who was about to drop into a very ambitious line beneath the east face of Mount Harwood.

I got a few photos...