Mount Shavano – Angel Ski Descent – 5.2.09
A stormy day for a ski descent of the Angel of Shavano.
Mount Bross – Moose Gulch Ski – 4.25.09
Skiing Mount Bross and thoughts on the ethics that surround summit ski descents.
Tour de Sopris
Amos Whiting, Dirk and I headed to Mount Sopris on Friday. Our initial plan was to ski the Crystal Chute, the 6000 foot couloir that descends towards Carbondale, a line that has been on all of our ‘ticklists’ for some time. After shuttling a car to the couloirs exit, or at least where we believed it to be, we drove towards the Dinkle Lake trailhead and made our way up...
Mount Yale Ski Descent – 4.18.09
A powder day on Mount Yale!
Community Service
Once in a while we all have to give something back. So when I saw the email yesterday I knew the right thing to do was go donate my time. It was a worthy cause. Here’s how the request for volunteers read: Powder Posse on Friday April 17th (tomorrow) ski up the POWDER. To join this Posse: You must be an expert skier or rider in good physical shape You...
The Postseason – May Madness or Brown Out?
Much to some locals’ dismay, the regular season in Aspen wrapped up last Sunday. If you ask me, it’s a blessing in disguise because like most sports, it’s the post season where things get exciting. For many, work stops until the tourists return for summer, the area snowpack is usually at it’s annual peak and the beautiful spring weather morphs the snow into its safer, predictable, spring variety. If the...
A Historic Day, for Iceland
A spring ski descent of the south couloirs on Quandary Peak with some adventure friends from out of town.
It’s Always Something
The 12th Annual Elk Mountain Grand Traverse was held this past weekend. Nearly 130 teams of two lined up for the midnight start at the Crested Butte High School, ready to make the 40 mile ski pilgrimage through the night to Aspen. This year’s race was marked by single digit temperatures and driving winds up high which most participants took in stride, because anyone who has done this race knows–...
Big Momma’s House
The day after crying uncle at the Steamboat race, Christy said we needed some so called “active recovery,” so we joined Dirk and Tim for an awesome day out in Big Momma Bowl. The weather was perfect for the two hour skin and hike to the huge bowl in the Maroon Creek Valley. The pics tell the rest and yes, Christy is skiing with fixed heels. Tim Mutrie, barely keeping...
Because Whiskey Tastes Better in Wyoming
Curiosity got the best of me this past weekend. I figured joining Christy for her 5th go at the 5th Annual Coureur Du Bois, a 90km skate race from Steamboat to the Wyoming border and back, sounded like good fun. It wasn’t– it crushed me. Who was I to think I could show up with only a single 40km training day and a few shorter races under my belt and...
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
