The Forgotten Season

December 2012 to April 2013 – My second winter out in the Wasatch I skied alot.  I was fortunate to meet a new (and always available) friend and touring partner – Jesse Dudley – who was just as stoked to get out and after the mountains! The season also offered the most snow of my three […]

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Canadians Are Good People

3/2/14 to 3/8/14 – There is a certain special trip ski patroller’s can work to experience and it is called an ‘exchange.’  The basic idea is that one ski area will trade two of its patrollers with another ski area’s patrollers for a few days.  As a visiting patroller your goal is to keep up (on the […]

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The White Rim

11/20 to 11/22/14 – After a failed attempt at the Idaho Hot Springs route, Jonny and I pondered what to do with our bikes and free time.  We dreamed of a place where there was less snow, or even no snow… And of course, the Utah desert offered a promise of dryness and beauty, even […]

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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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Breaking in the Howitzers

4/2/2012 – After saving for most of the winter and a couple of boot sizing issues, I finally got my new touring setup mounted and ready for shredding.  The setup is: Skilogik Howitzer 186s with Dynafit TLT Vertical ST bindings, Dynafit ZZero TC4 boots, and my beloved BCA magic carpet skins!  Being that the skis […]

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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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