Christy makes her way across the rolling basin to the East Ridge. Route: Yawner Gullies (SW) Team: Ted, Christy We had come off Sneffels the weekend prior, and decided to head back down to the San Juans for a combo ice climbing trip/ San Luis Peak ski. After a couple of days in the Ouray Ice Park, we made our way to Creede for the night. It just so happened...
A January 2010 ski of the Birthday Chutes on Mount Sneffels.
You’re only considered to have finished when you kiss the rock. The Hardrock 100 starts tomorrow at 6am, and with any luck could be over sometime Saturday. How will it go? Well, there’s so much to this race, so many variables and unknowns that it’s impossible to say for sure, until it’s over. So I have to fall back on the cliche for my answer– it’s hard telling, not knowing....
It’s July 16th, a.k.a. the most important day of the year, and if you haven’t seen Christy and her long red dress and wished her a happy birthday yet, you can still acknowledge the significance of the day at the Aspen Club tennis courts until 8, then at the Sky until about 10 and finally at the Belly Up for the ‘Jes Grew’ reunion show until midnight(w/ cake, thanks Troy)....
An epic Type II fun day on a remote 13er in the San Juans. There were definitely some lesson learned.
Redcloud and Sunshine peaks, a great pair of 14ers outside of Lake City that you can ski in a single day.
It had been two weeks since Christy and I had skied down in the San Juans and although we were wearing shorts in Aspen now, our friend in Telluride insisted we could still ski the classic Northeast Face of Wilson Peak.
A 2007 spring ski mission into Chicago basin to ski Mount Eolus.
An early season ski descent of the Snake Couloir on Mount Sneffels.
A spring ski descent of Wetterhorn Peak on a hot day that delivered a learning lesson.