We are a fanatical bunch, here in Bozeman. July is not ski season, by any stretch of the imagination. Yet when my girlfriend and I hiked up Sacagawea on July 5th to make some summer turns, there were probably more skiers up there than any day in the winter. Every last swatch of dirty, sun-pocked [...]
The morning before the wedding and the day we drove out of town we skiing up on Thompson Pass. The first day was only my girlfriend’s second day backcountry skiing ever, so we did a pretty mild and short run on the East side the road, on the shoulder of Odyssey. The second day was [...]
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 [...]
