Goodness Gracious

11/10/12 & 11/11/12 – I’m going to start this post off a bit different because I’m too excited about ski season to contain myself and showing restraint in not posting photos of fresh snow would just be downright awful.  Therefore, I will skip many of the updates that needed to happen – Hawaii, Mt. Massive, […]

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Bicycle Wandering?

8/27/12 to TBD – I am currently sitting at the Estes Park town library, on the fourth official day of our Great Divide bicycle tour.  I am out on this excellent adventure with solid membersof the dream team: Sir Jonny Bomber and Captain Dave-O Reed.  We started a couple days ago in Golden, hitting Coors […]

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When Colorado Invades

3/24/2012 to 3/26/2012 – A few of the boys from Colorado swung in for a couple days of skiing en route to a couple of huts in Montana during the annual spring break hut trip and we ripped up some savage tours in Wasatch spring slush.  Unfortunately for the crew – Old Man Reed, Daan, […]

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Another Peek At Patrolling

2/7/2012 to 2/19/2012 – Just a couple more photos of daily life on the patrol.  The first photo is of Brendan Finneran ready to tear shit up in the Headwall! Put more cleanly, he is enjoying the variety of patrol work and is headed out to cut up a down tree after a wind-storm.  The […]

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Carrying A Camera At Work

1/20/2012 to 2/18/2012 – Wow, its definitely been too long since my last update… but whatcha gonna do?  To update you folks, I haven’t been shooting nearly as many photos as I ought to, have been working much too much (19 of the last 21 days), and have been messing around with shooting video (so […]

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The Mighty Mendenhall Glacier

10/28/2011 – No more than two hours after having landed in Alaska (back on October 3rd), I was out hiking around the Mendenhall Valley with a couple of my WEMT classmates.  The glacier was a powerful piece of geologic and climatological history that immediately instilled in me the belief that Alaska is something special and […]

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Neccessary Read.

An epic short story of a potentially paralyzing accident and the mental struggles associated with high alpine ski mountaineering through the viewpoint of one of the most accomplished and authentic young mountain addicts I know. This is the story of Dave Reed, Daan Stevenson, Jonny Cromwell and Copeland Mountain in RMNP, CO. Please read it, […]

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