A whole month after all that crazy snow I skied back in October and I’m finally out touring again. Things just got warm up here in Montana and there wasn’t much skiing to be had! The last few days brought in some precipitation though, and Steve and I headed up to Bridger Bowl to see [...]
So, it started snowing here in Bozeman. No biggie, there’s been snow in the mountains already this year. It was time for some snow in the valley. Just a dusting actually accumulated in town, but the mountains remained shrouded in tantalizing white mystery for three days. Snow was already on our minds with an avalanche [...]
As long as I was in the Cascades, I DID want to climb a volcano. Rainier, Hood, Shasta… all of them are difficult and I was sketched to try them alone. But while I was in Issaquah with Chris he told me about Mount Adams. It’s an impressive volcano in the classic prominent style of [...]
As I mentioned briefly in my previous post, one of the main attractions to visiting Bozeman for a few days was getting my Dynafit bindings mounted on my new skis. I’ll go into more depth on my new backcountry ski setup (and compare it to my old one) at a later date, but suffice it [...]
