Lou Dawson Archives | Stuck in the Rockies

The First Turns

Oct 28, 2010

There’s something about making your first turns of the season that’s always special.

Conundrum Couloir & a “mini” Ellingwood Ridge

Jul 8, 2008

Skiing on the 4th! The thought of skiing on July 4th seemed too fun to turn down. Initially hoping to ski the "Fourth of July" bowl up on Independence Pass, when the reports came back that conditions there were pretty lean, and that Montezuma Basin and neighboring Conundrum Peak, 14,060 ft., were still loaded, the call went out to anyone interested. At 6 am Tim Mutrie and I rendezvoused with...

14er Ski Descents – North Maroon Peak – May 31, 2008

May 31, 2008

Route: North Face Team: Christy, Ted, Dirk Bockelmann [Christy here} While there has been a lot of great skiing this spring, nothing would mean more to me than getting North Maroon Peak. For a while now Dirk and I have both pondered whether we were ready for the North Face or not. Ted has skied it a couple of times... Turns out we were ready! We got started on the trail at 4:15 after...

Coronation Day – Len Shoemaker Peak – 13,631 ft.

May 6, 2008

Lou made it official, I was the third person to ski all of the Colorado 14ers. So when he (the 1st to finish) called to invite me to ski Len Shoemaker Peak along with he and some friends two weeks after finishing the project, I knew my coronation was before me, I just wasn't sure how it come. I figured a formal ceremony to be unlikely. Maybe I would be shown...

14er Ski Descents – Belford & Oxford – April 7, 2007

Apr 7, 2007

Route: Northeast Face (Belford), Southwest Face (Oxford) Team: Ted, Christy, Lou & Louie Dawson, Jordan White The caller ID said Lou Dawson. The father and son duo were thinking about a trip to Belford and Oxford and offered up the invite. So Christy and I met them, along with Jordan White, at the Missouri Gulch TH the evening before. Aside from a single spring ski day up on Independence Pass,...