Spring Season
The days are longer, the temperatures warmer, and the snowpack, though thin, is stablizing. We love the arrival of spring because it signifies the start of our backcountry ski touring season.
Dirty 30
Another summer, another calendar full of running races. When we registered for the Golden Gate Dirty 30 back in February we knew it would be a long shot to get properly trained for a trail 50K by the end of May. Our main focus through the spring is always skiing, and there just isn’t enough time to get in the miles. But that’s how it always is. (more…)
Mount Meeker – Dragon Egg Couloir
Skiing the Dragon Egg Couloir on Mount Meeker. What an awesome line.
The Dirty 30
Spring snows and June skiing aside, the summer running season is here. Jumping right into things, Christy and I ran the Dirty 30 last Saturday, a 50K course run along the trails of Golden Gate State Park, located northeast of Blackhawk, CO. Now in its 3rd year, the event hosts three races-- a 7, 12, and 31 miler (50K)-- and in addition to being really scenic, very hilly and just...
Spearhead
Feeling as though we had done a good job taking advantage of what the Aspen area has to offer lately, and with plans forming for a climbing trip to Joshua Tree and Red Rocks this fall, we thought we'd change gears and hit the road for a little alpine climbing. So on Dirk's recommendation, Christy, he and I made the trip to Rocky Mountain National Park, with the goal of...
Christy’s Homestretch
So Christy pulled it off, she's the first woman to ski the 54 Colorado 14ers. And what a finish it was, not simply due to the fact that her final peak was Capitol, considered by my many to be the most committing ski descent of all the 14ers, but in the various challenges that presented themselves this past season. It may have appeared as though it all fell right into...
Christy’s Done
On May 16, 2010, with a ski descent of Capitol Peak's east face, I completed my goal of skiing the 54 Colorado 14,000-foot mountains (aka 14ers). While the root of the project can be traced back 10 years when, as a relative novice with a ready smile, I skied my first 14er, Quandary Peak, it eventually evolved into something bigger than I ever could've imagined back then. And so somewhere...
14er Ski Descents – Pikes Peak – May 1, 2010
Route: Crags CG/summit/Y couloir/summit/Crags CG Team: Christy, Ted Christy wanted this one done, and she didn't want to wait. We had been unlucky in a couple of earlier attempts to get up the Pikes Peak Highway to ski the Y Couloir. The road closes regularly in the fickle spring weather. So as it was looking like she might be able to finish all 54 ski descents after a recent storm...
14er Ski Descents – Mount Evans – May 24, 2009
Route: Northeast Face Team: Ted, Christy This was the final day of Christy's super-busy 2009 spring. The day after skiing Wetterhorn Peak, a spring storm moved in and closed the road to the summit of Pike's Peak. Upon being turned around at the gate on Pikes, we decided to high-tail up to Evans and salvage the day-- it was Memorial Day Weekend and the Mount Evans Highway had just opened....
Longs Peak – Kieners Route
If the number of visits from UPS in recent days is any indication, something's going down. Our departure for Nepal and Ama Dablam is next week and with the steady stream of new gear deliveries it feels like Christmas around here. New boots, backpacks, crampons, gloves, overboots, down layers, base layers, sleeping bags and pads, one freshette(google it), climbing gear, etc. You name it, Dirk, Christy and/or I just got it,...
About Christy & Ted
We met in Aspen in 2000 and have been happily stuck in the rockies ever since, getting out in the mountains every day we can, in every season and by all means possible. Read More
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