It’s never too early to get stoked for the coming ski season. Here’s a good way to waste some time for all you office-bound suckers like me: a round-up of the 2010 ski film trailers from TGR, Matchstick, Warren Miller, Powderwhore and etc (in no particular order). There’s some good stuff in here. I’m particularly psyched for [...]

Thanks to BCA (makers of great backcountry gear including the most-used avalanche beacons) and Teton Gravity Research (the venerable media company responsible for AMAZING films like the recently debuted Re:Session) for this 7-part video series on avalanche training and awareness.
This is NO SUBSTITUTE for in-person avalanche training courses, but serves as a great refresher for [...]

Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue.
They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake.  If you haven’t been to Homewood, it sits right across the street from Lake Tahoe, so any intense rain washes sediment from the hill down into the [...]

I’m not sure about the history of this video. It says it was shot in April of 2008, but the Vimeo page says it way uploaded just a few weeks ago. So many of you may have seen this already. But if not, watch it!
It shows the entire sequence of a Tahoe skier up in [...]

Oooohh goody goody goody. A new TGR film to drool over. Here's the trailer just released. Debuts at the end of the summer just in time to make you crazy waiting for the snow to fly. Via WildSnow:

Very cool. Check out Greg Hill’s video, Mont Blanc in a Day. Via TetonAT:

Made a quick trip up to the east side over the weekend. Skied the ever-popular Dana Couloir (also a popular alpine ice climb in the late summer months). Slept Friday night at the turn-out just east of the Yosemite pay-gate at Tioga Pass. Got moving Saturday morning about 8:30am.
If you're a lollygagger like me, [...]

I just spoke to a nice ranger at the Lee Vining ranger station. They informed me that Tioga Road is indeed open all the way up to the eastern gate at Tioga Pass.
That means Mt. Dana is accessible for the annual backcountry skiing pilgrimage to the Dana Couloir. It also means I'm headed for [...]

Just back from an awesome couple of days on Mt. Shasta. This was my third time on the mountain. The weather set up nicely for us (particularly for this time of year), but it was brutal hot mid-day at high camp.
We climbed the trade route, Avalanche Gulch, then skied the broad gully to skiers-left of [...]

My climbing buddy (known in some circles as Peerzat) is flying in from Minneapolis tomorrow morning. We're gonna head up to Shasta for a climb/ski descent. This is one of my favorite ski descents anywhere – 7000 vertical feet of awesomeness from summit to car.
And it looks like some perfect spring conditions [...]