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...
Skiing the North Couloir on Mount Lindsey.
A great climb and ski of the Southeast Couloir on the Crestone Needle.
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!
A spring ski descent of the south couloirs on Quandary Peak with some adventure friends from out of town.
A late spring (June 1) ski descent of South Maroon Peak.
A spring climb and ski descent in 2008 of Hagerman Peak, near Snowmass Mountain and Snowmass Lake. We don’t hear much about Hagerman Peak. Even being one of the tallest (top-ten) local peaks in the Aspen area, it seems to garner little attention.
We hooked up with a gang of friends from town and headed up to Cathedral Lake. Our goal was the Pearl Couloir of Cathedral, an area classic and sweet objective by itself. At the top of the couloir however, Christy and I would continue on up and over to Cathedral’s true summit, and ski it’s Southeast Face.
An epic Type II fun day on a remote 13er in the San Juans. There were definitely some lesson learned.
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
