Fossil Alpinism

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Larry and I spent a couple hours last night at the fossil cabin yakking about possible future mountain trips. He seemed keen on a hut-to-hut...

While I continue to get out on snow each day, my mind has started wandering toward some short term and long term mountain running goals. Thi...

I went out for a nice late afternoon skate workout ... coverage continues to be excellent.

The Whyte Museum in Banff is doing an archival video about Hans Gmoser. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILER.

Countless parties and countless kick turns up to the Col Crochues.

This afternoon our ski hill was open and we had 15 students out riding the rope tow. I left work early and spent an hour skinning laps on a ...

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CLICK HERE TO READ STRAIGHT CHUTER. Andrew McLean is an explorer, extreme skier, and ski mountain guide. Getting ready to head off to Alas...

Les Courtes Les Droites. Les Verte. Solo. In Winter. Almost 5000m of climbing.

While we were in Europe, some of my staff took advantage of new snow to ski this post-Irene classic Adirondack slide.

We have some of the best late season nordic conditions that we have had in many a year. I skied for an hour this morning at Mount Van Hoeven...

Touring and skiing POW at 3000 meters. My tracks are out of view and decidedly less pretty.

Mr. Wild Snow - Lou Dawson - summarizes a talk given by Peter Lev and John Evans. On mountain safety. Their talk was an attempt to distill ...

As I have mentioned before this guy is the real deal, an endurance phenom, and a mountain man of epic proportions. CLICK HERE TO READ THE NE...

Heading to the Jamatal Hut through the Kronenjoch, we got to tag a couple of three-thousand meter peaks.

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Today's tour put us over the 20k mark for climbing. A great lunch of pasta and beer, followed by some fresh - although heavy - powder. A...

Getting ready to skin up something and then pack for a late afternoon trip to the Zurich airport.

The final mini-tour of races in Sweden this week will determine the outcome of this three way battle. I believe a mere 15 points separate Co...

Rented some Nordic gear and went out for some classical laps. The visibility was poor with a strong warm foehn wind blowing. Guillaume's...

As my other buddies headed to Zurich for flights after their last ski runs at St Anton, Guillaume and I drove to Gstaad. A few easy tours, a...

Riding the lifts in St. Anton.

A nice painting in our hotel which literally could have been any corner of Austria. Tomorrow we are riding lifts in St. Anton ... Some would...

Having experienced many significant avalanches in Galtur, including the one in 1999 with serious loss of life ... these folks take pretty bi...

Heading out from the Weisbaden Hutte