The Guides Corner: Tips, Tricks, Trip Reports, Gear Reviews, and Mountaineering Ramblings from Rich Meyer Alpine Guide.
It’s 5am in Truckee, and you’re headed out for a dawn-patrol lap on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. Your pack includes beacon, shovel, and probe of course. Also layers, hat, sunblock, snacks, lip balm. You know the drill. [...]
Black Diamond has introduced a new webisode series entitled Ski Here Now. Looks to be some pretty good stuff. Can’t wait to dive into the films. Watch the trailer below.
But here’s the question of the day: Is the overly-dramatic intro meant to be
The Guides Corner: Tips, Tricks, Trip Reports, Gear Reviews, and Mountaineering Ramblings from Rich Meyer Alpine Guide.
Ah, duct tape – the tried-and-true, do-anything, fix-anything mainstay in every backcountry kit. Its uses have been documente
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 part
On the surface, this is a simple and happy story. A snowboarder at Loveland Pass in CO got caught in an avalanche and luckily survived. He was carried down the slope and ended up buried up to his waist – right-side up. Thank goodness.
But watch th
With the start of the ski season, I thought it prudent to do a roundup of avalanche resources available online and in the Sierra Nevada region.
Now you have no excuse. Go take that avalanche course you’ve been putting off. It’ll make the backcount
I spent the weekend at our place in north Tahoe watching more than four feet of snow fall in just a few days. That’s a fantastic start to the season and should make for a solid base at area resorts and in the backcountry.
And there’s more precip o
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 ava
I went out and saw Warren Miller’s Dynasty here in San Francisco last night. The film features Tahoe and Tahoe skiers right out of the gate in the opening sequences of the show.
After the requisite sales pitch for ski passes and salvos to Warren M
Ty Dayberry, a South Lake Tahoe local and member of Heavenly Ski Resort’s “High Roller Team,” is featured in the new extreme telemark skiing film, The Freeheel Life.
The film documents the travels and descents of some of the world’s best freeheel
