Oh man have I been a bad little blogger..! Nothing new for weeks, well OK, months. We have been putting an addition on our house which was suppose to be quick and easy, but of course it spawned a whole slew of other upgrades that have consumed most of my summer. Hopefully the end is [...]
Revelation Mountains – Alaska
This trip began two years ago as a brain-child of Noah Howell. Noah had heard vague rumors of a remote, rugged mountain range called the Revelations and had tried to fly in there from Talkeetna but was thwarted by the weather. In the big AK picture, the Revelations are about 140 miles west/northwest of Anchorage [...]
Ultima Thule 2010 Trip Report
Well, okay, it is really more of a photo gallery with captions, but it hits the highlights of the trip. This was my third trip to the Ultima Thule Lodge in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains and I was there with Eli Potter, Aria, Hombi, Reto and the Claus family to do some skiing and discuss [...]
Backcountry Wedding
I’ve never gotten bored with skiing as it seems like some new twist on the theme always shows up and keeps my interest alive (that plus it is just fun). But, I don’t think I ever would have anticipated our trip to Iceberg Lake in the Wrangell-St.Elias Mountains to turn out quite the way it [...]
Solidarity Peak Video
Two videos in two days? Yes, that’s what living in the shadow of the Sundance Film Festival will do for you. This one is a video of a single run, Peak Solidarity, in the Wrangell-St.Elias Mountains. Before skiing this peak I happened to see it in a photo book and of the entire book, this [...]
Revelations Video
A little video from the Revelations… ________________________________ Help support StraightChuter.com and nail the POV footie with a VholdR ContourHD 1080p Wearable Camcorder from Backcountry.com. Click on the photo below…
PackRaft Practice Outing
After seeing an inflated PackRaft in Alaska Mountaineering & Hiking last year, it was love at first sight and I ended up buying one. PackRafts are burly little personal rafts that are capable of carrying things like skis, bikes, packs or bloody chunks of moose on them. Deflated and folded up, they weigh in at [...]
Cold Fusion and Warm Limestone
Memorial Day in Utah goes a long ways toward easing the pain of triple digit temps here in Ahhhgust. I can’t remember a Memorial Day with bad weather, but then again my memory is so bad that that’s not saying much. In any case, you can ski, climb, bike, hike, fish or mix & match [...]
Mt. Hunter Skiing Topo
No, not the one in New York, but the lesser known one in Alaska. I drew this topo a few years ago to see if I could still remember which end of a pen to use, and recently a couple of friends had been asking about skiing the peak, so here it is. And a [...]
Wrangell and Revelation Quickie Trip Report
I haven’t had time to sort through the 1,200+ photos and hours of video from this two-part trip, but here are a few highlights. Detailed trip reports to follow. More photo galleries and trip reports to follow. Thanks to Mountain Hardware, Backcountry.com, Dynafit, Scarpa and K2 for making it possible! ___________________ Help support StraightChuter.com and [...]