Last winter was an amazing season filled with deep snow and steep lines. I ticked off a few objectives, skied a lot of pow and most importantly stayed healthy. I was lucky enough to have photog Jay Beyer along for many of the best days. Jay was kind enough to let me use some of his b-roll photos for this blog. The best photos will hopefully be making it to print next year so you will just have to wait to see them. Until then…
You gotta go up to go down. No lifts here... well not yet at least!
Scoping lines on Cardiac ridge.
I was lucky enough to ski this line twice this year. The first time I was unsure of conditions and cautiously pulled up before the choke and let my sluff go by. Second try I sent it in good style, 3 turns and go!
One of many deep days this year.
Drop it like it's hot!
A little air at the end of the day. Alta, Utah....My favorite resort in the world.
Check out the steeze on this massive air! Yeah Boyeeeeee!
Attempting to fly over Mt. Superior
In April I headed up north for another spring in Alaska. After spending my last four trips to AK almost exclusively in the Thompson Pass/Valdez area, I was ready for something totally new. I had been trying to organize a trip to Haines for a few years and this year it all came together with a ripping crew. Nick Devore, Will Cardamone, Andy Rosenberg, Noah Howell and Jay Beyer. No helis this year, we took a plane on to a glacier in a prime zone, set up base camp and proceeded to crush surrounding lines the old-fashioned way: hike up, ski down! We had ridiculous amounts of fun when we were skiing or just waiting out the weather in the big dome tent.
Our pilot Drake was the man! He definitely hooked us up, getting us into a good zone with tons of different aspects, all of which are easily accessed from our base camp.
We spent a lot of time in the big dome tent. What is that smell?
Yep, we got bored enough to dig a pit to do pull-ups in!
First real line of the trip. Not a real confidence booster.
Enjoying one of the many fine steep faces that Haines has to offer.
After a long day of skiing there is nothing quite like a bunch of toxic cheese!
Big thanks to Jay Beyer for all the photos. Definitely a big step up from my photos that usually grace the pages of this blog. Hopefully next year will be bigger, better, faster, and more steezeylicous. Until the snow flies again… climbing season…