Nice toss Christy! I’ve played disc golf at 17,200 feet (Everest Basecamp- see below) but horseshoes at 14K? It was a first for me. Click to enlarge. After a string of fall storms brought snow to much of the state, winter has been on everyones mind. Usually we’re excited to pull the stuff out of the closet and head up to Castle Peak’s Montezuma Basin for some early season skiing...
A wet spring day skiing the Northeast Face of Mount Evans in 2009.
The Writing’s on the Snow Christy gets down with the brown on Wetterhorn’s East Face I think we might be done. Five weeks ago I laid out two possible scenarios concerning the brown snow this spring, the dust would either be a non-issue or it would cut the season short. Opinions around town favored the latter as the likely outcome, and that’s understandable because it looked pretty bad around here. For...
A Sad Day for the Tele’s Route: Northeast Face Team: Ted, Christy, Dirk Bockelmann, Philip Ping Flaunting her new boots to the couloir, Christy’s eager to go. Christy is always picking on me for having more shoes than she, and when you count all of my old beat up running sneakers she may be right, I could stand to toss a few old pairs. But the most recent addition to...
Skiing the North Couloir on Mount Lindsey.
Skiing the South Slopes of Mount Massive
A great climb and ski of the Southeast Couloir on the Crestone Needle.
Route: Southeast Face Team: Christy, Ted, Kim Havell, Karen Kingsley The four of us had just skied the Crestone Needle and from Broken Hand Pass were looking over to Humboldt. We could see the straightforward route down, across Upper South Colony Lakes, and up the mountain’s standard summer route. The ski down would be thin at the top, as it always is, but to get two Sangre summits checked off...
Only during a special season does the North Couloir on Crestone Peak have enough snow to ski. 2008 was one of those years….
A spring descent of Kit Carson’s Outward Bound Couloir, a Sangre classic!
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
