The “Reverse Trailhead” meant we climbed back up after skiing. Route: Y Couloir Team: ted, Chris Davenport It would be a month after Pyramid before I skied another 14er. An eight day trip to Valdez, AK followed by a ski expedition to the tallest peak in Greenland, all sandwiched around buying and remodeling our condo kept me busy when Chris was stepping up his efforts on the 14ers. I was...
Route: Southeast Face Team: Christy, Lyndsay Meyer The Kite Lake trailhead Ascending the thinly covered route. Not much avy risk here today. Lyndsay Christy The view back towards Bross. On the summit. Ready to ski. Maybe a little corn on the descent? Watch those willows!
An April ski descent of Mount Lincoln.
Chris, in the big middle section of the Landry Route. Route: East Face Team: Ted, Chris Davenport, Neal Beidleman The advanced planning was minimal, consisting of a couple of organizational calls from Chris, laced with tones of muted optimism. The recon was even more limited. We had a few aerial shots of the route, a line that had only been skied once before back in 1978. The hazards were widely...
Up top, not much to see here, either. Route: South Slopes Team: Ted, Chris Davenport Even though I had already skied Mount Sherman once in 2004, I still welcomed Chris’s invitation to do something different and get out of Aspen for the day. We could talk up some more exciting trips for spring and maybe somewhere down the road he would return the favor and come along with me when...
A January ski descent of Quandary peak with Chris Davenport and Horton the Quandary Dog.
An early season ski descent of the Snake Couloir on Mount Sneffels.
Route: North Face Couloir Team: Ted (solo) This was a standard Castle Peak outing. Autumn rain in Aspen falls as snow up in Montezuma Basin. Mike Sladdin, Johnny Love, and I piled in the Tacoma and headed up to see how much snow fell. I had been up here earlier in the week and knew the couloir was skiable. Mike wasn’t too interested in the summit, and Johnny regretfully left...
On the summit, a gorgeous July day. Route: Cross Couloir Team: Ted (solo) In 2005 I skied during every month of the year. I had always heard of people in Colorado doing this, traveling to small desperate patches of sun-cupped summer snow just to be able to say they skied all year. September and August can be the toughest to pull off. July was easy, I went to Holy Cross....
With the ramp finished, a pole touch from the benchmark, we were ready. Route: North Face Team: Ted, Christy With the arrival of June, north facing snow was about all that was left. The view of Missouri’s north side from La Plata the week before showed it was still in from the top, or so it appeared. Christy and I were excited as we made the quick trip over Independence...
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
