Moving is never easy, but when it's time it's time.
Ever wonder how that 12-year-old just hucked a Misty 540 off the sun deck of the lodge at Ajax while you sat in your shades sipping Sancerre? He worked hard in the off-season that's how. What's that you say? There is no off season? Do tell...
To say this winters snow pack was fragile is to say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Both dangerous, both capable of ruining lives.
On January 11, 2010, I was caught in an avalanche on No Name Peak at Berthoud Pass, Colorado. This is my story.
What to do when your home mountain has less than inspiring conditions? Road trip! Jackson Hole to be exact.
Averages of 16 inches of snow overnight happens all the time on the West coast of the continental USA, yet 1,000 miles inland, the Rocky Mountains lie. By the time storms arrives the moisture content is generally a quarter of what it began with. Waking up to 16 inches in the Rockies is special indeed, and Monday, March 1st did not disappoint.
