Things are tough all over

The past few years have been dire: either no snow, or so much that the ski lifts are buried. Either way, ski touring has been a challenge and we even had to cancel Ski Weekend several times because it was impossible to drive the cat over miles of dirt road.

Is this the future of skiing?

Gear recommendation: a mountain bike.

Night bandit

Dave, is that you?

Best view of avalanches.

Off to Chamonix next week...probably won't be doing this. I wonder what happens if you trigger a slide on a climber below?:
Speed Riding - Antoine Montant - Can't Stop

POV camera in avalanche.

Some of you asked for this video link:


Avalanche Skier POV Helmet Cam Burial & Rescue in Haines, Alaska from Chappy on Vimeo.

And here are the ones everybody keeps quoting...

"All the Cool Kids are Paramarking":

"The Truth About Powder Skis":

"Cross-country Snowboarding":

Menage-a -Trois tour

Sunday, January 31, 2010: Today, Shaggie called the ball. We skied a traverse through Desolation Wilderness from Bayview to Dick's Peak, then Janie's Peak, then Maggie's Peak & out the desperate up-track back to the parking pull out.

The tour covered around 10.5 miles over 5K-feet of elevation gain & loss. So it was burly, but not vomitous. We even kicked off a couple little shallow wind slabs on Dick's.

We learned a lot: that this is actually a great tour, for instance. Some of us even learned we'd been wearing drop seat pants for 13 years without realizing it. And that what happens on a stupid ski tour STAYS on a stupid ski tour :)

Skiers: Shaggie, Beth, Chris, Buttercup, Castle-Bloom, Jeff, Faerthen, Gregor, Erica & Anne.

Affirmative-action token Snowboarder: Rob.

Chris' photos.

Untitled from Rob Flesher on Vimeo.