It’s the start of a new decade. WooHoo! Well, with that I want to write down some goals and thoughts coming into this new year…………Riding: It is what it is all about. Riding. I want to get into better shape for the coming season because when I g…
Montrail
I’m super stoked to be heading into another year as a member of Team Montrail. As I’ve said numerous times throughout this year, the Mountain Masochist is the best shoe I have ever worn. I’ve pretty much stopped wearing anything else. I think it’s been…
Commando
I knew it was going to be a good day when I was clearing my driveway last night. The intake height on my snowblower is 21 inches, and it was up to the top in places. I’ve made no secret that I’m a bit absentminded from time to time. This ski se…
When Do You Change Your Batteries?
So, for the first time this year, my Ortovox S1 avalanche transceiver went from a battery indicator of 3 beeps…to 2 beeps. The S1 has three settings to indicate battery life. 3 beeps means the batteries are at 100-75%, 2 beeps mean 75-50% and only 1 beep means a battery power of below [...]
Wild Snow Beacon Reviews — Mammut Barryvox Pulse
Barryvox Pulse avalanche beacon transceiver is an amazing technological tour de force — perhaps too amazing for some users. Not only does the Pulse provide a state-of-art feature set that at times seems nearly infinite, but it also also offers a high degree of customization.
2009 in review
Wow, it is hard to believe that it is the last day of 2009…where did the year go? The year’s end is a good time to take a look at Google Analytics and see what has been happening with the blog this past year. Almost 750,000 people visited Bicycle Des…
Skinning Over Timber
I tend to do a lot of skinning over timber. Why, I’m not sure as it is not really that much fun, but I suppose it is better than traversing way around a fallen tree, then backtracking. Timber skinning is especially common early in the season or when it is a low snow year, such [...]
Endless summer
Juneau has yet to experience a very deep cold snap this winter, and we haven’t had much snow. This is following a near-record-dry fall and what I have been told was a record-warm summer. Our pattern since mid-November seems to be a couple of (relativel…
The icy sweet spot
It’s chilly out there folks! Temps have been below normal….and from the looks of it, this has been the case for a while as some of the more high traveled roads that I train on have some sections of super packed snow, ice, and black ice. The last sn…