Posts Tagged ‘Skiing’

Five years ago, when we did our first hut trip to Fairy Meadows, we fell in love with the “hut trip” concept. We’ve since gone to several others, but have been trying each year to get a spot at the Kokanee Hut via the Alpine Club of Canada’s lottery system. We missed it [...]

It has been a fairly dismal snow year here in the Pacific Northwest. Our passes to the Snoqualmie resorts lie crisp and fresh, untouched, in our helmets. Amid the organized chaos of involvement with 3 or 4 Search And Rescue teams between the two of us, we’ve had precious little time to use [...]

After ushering in 2009 in a moldy, half-frozen yurt, we made plans to close out the year in comfort and style. Caribou Lodge had been good to us despite poor skiing conditions in March and it came through again for New Year 2010.

Many of you will be familiar with this stuff already, but Aunt Tilley (Margo) wanted a more thorough explanation of the graph in my last post, so I wrote it out for her and figured I might as well put it up here, too.

We took Jessica out for her third backcountry weekend in a row, aiming for the trifecta of difficult skiing conditions. We were lucky to find 15″ of new snow that had been subject to 2 or 3 days of above freezing temperatures and several inches of rain. Had to be some of the [...]

This was a Cascade Backcountry tour, and a beacon/travel education day for a couple of friends who are new to touring.
The very ambitious (and never really serious) plan was to head out the XC trails from Hyak and scoot out to Twin Lakes, then up to ski the east slopes of Silver. Coverage along [...]

Our Argentina story, in moving-picture format…

Into The Land Of Fire on Vimeo.

A quick one today, with no photos. We returned to Cerro Castor for a thigh-burner, since the weather forecast didn’t look as good for touring and we all wanted to maximize our turns in good snow, since we’re returning to a problematic season known as “late summer” in Seattle.
As before, Castor was fairly empty. [...]

Meat and bread. So simple, yet so delicious, the empanada has become a staple of our backcountry diet. After Juan Pablo’s wife Elena graced us with hers for our tour of Cerro Bonéte we’ve been vacuuming them into our mouths whenever the opportunity strikes. To our great delight, we found a pizza [...]

Today was on the books as a rest day, so we slept in and took our time getting ourselves going. We had three tasks: rent a car, secure transportation from here to Punta Arénas at the end of the week, and the Secret Mystery Mission. The Mystery Mission was supposed to be [...]