Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Alaska 2010 Climbing Trip! Part .05

I just started packing for my upcoming trip with AMS to climb in the Alaska Range, and the pile of gear at the foot of my bed was so stoke inspiring that I needed to throw up a quick blog about it....5 days until take off from DIA!!

The gear pile, I'd say this is at 95% complete....

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Big Mountain Skiing in CO....


Fritz loving perfect corn

So one of the things that I found super appealing and super fun to do when I first moved here to Colorado was ski big spring lines. With the usual garbage snowpack, it's the time of year where suddenly you can get on big steep lines and ski really good corn safely. It's a lot of fun. It also necessitates getting up at the ass crack of dawn and walking for a very long time in order to get to the lines that you want to ski. Usually the walk gets longer as the season winds down. The interesting thing about my love for this kind of skiing, is that the last two years, my motivation to do it has just about sucked ass. I'm trying to look on this as good thing, as though a single minded motivation can sometimes be detrimental to one's health and that I'm a more rounded person for being excited by things like rock climbing and mountain biking too. It's also a good idea to work and move with what the seasons give you right? I get 8 months a year to ski, so is it really a crime to want to get on some rock or ride my bike? I don't think so although sometimes I do still feel like I'm cheating on my first love.
Anyways, totally contrary to the beginning of this post, here's some photos from a recent ski of Quandary and Christo Coulior with Dobish and Fritz. Christo is awesome and that's probably why it appears here so much. Easy up easy down, steep and big.

Random dude that skied down with us making nice lookin' turns...


Dan and Fritz on the climb up


Best of all, us 4 wheeling at 11 pm trying to get to a flat campsite when we'd driven past four of them already!


Summit shot (slightly blurry)

Perhaps next spring I'll get the Jones for big mountain descents back again...
Either way, it was awesome getting out with you guys again, Dobish and Fritz

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

So the usually I suck at updating post...


Busy, blah blah blah, excuses, blah, blah, blah. I know I suck at updating blogs and about once a year I post this exact same thread with me saying how much I suck at updating blogs. I really am going to try to get better at this, my only excuse being I haven't felt inspired to write about things over the last few months. Lots of changes occuring and frankly I've barely had any time to mull it all over myself. Good news is, most of these changes are great changes, its just that change seems to take time to get used to....Anyways, to make up for it here are some of the better photos from a late season ski trip to Berthoud and Loveland Passes. The berthoud ones are my favorite as Brian, Jeff and I were surprised by about a foot and a half of fresh powder and not a soul in sight to ski it besides us :)



Nothing like a surprise pow day!


Dobish probably thinking that hiking doesn't suck that much!


A slightly blurry definition of the word Stoke!


I'm headed to Bonnarroo tomorrow for a three day festival of 300 bands and rocking out with an old friend from college. Unfortunatly there won't be any photos as I've got no camera coming with me (no way I'm getting my camera stolen!) and then I'm back in CO for a week before heading to Alaska with a certain Michael Bean, who has made a few appearances here before. Definetly expect some visual love from that one, as the SLR will be out in full force :)