The Highway Line
There is in the backcountry ski – and I would expect the rock climbing – world a unique and exclusive phenomenon. A fantastic and spectacular distraction of such epic and arousing proportions that it is known to cause severe rubber necking, lane drifting and angry, frightened outbursts from any passengers you may have in the […]
This is the Right Place
“There’s new snow in the mountains.” “Yes indeed.” “We need to go investigate.” “Where do you want to start looking?” “Superior? West Bowl of Silver? Holy Toledo and Cardiac?” “All excellent options.” “Let me take a look at the map…” And so started a chain of events that ended with us all being able to […]
The Point of the Mountain
Along the Wasatch Front – both in local vernacular and in geographic terms – we use the phrase “the point of the mountain.” Actually, in the local vernacular that phrase has two meanings, one of which is simply a more benign term for the State prison. As in, “If you continue to behave this way […]
High Adventure
I’m tired. But I’m smiling. (More to come on Monday. For now, I need a nap.)
Shot Down
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars’ worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk. ~P.J. O’Rourke, Modern Manners, 1984. One would wonder what the venerable Mr. O’Rourke would have to say about backcountry skiing, wherein one […]
On Second Thought
The mountain biking is starting to fill in nicely. A few more days like the ones we’ve had recently will certainly make it easier to let go of that heretofore hanging thread.
Hanging by a Thread
The ski season is melting away into spring. Slowly. But undeniably. And yet, as I have written, I’m not quite ready to give up on it just yet. And so, I’m hanging by a thread to an equally precarious snowpack. Anyone want to indulge in spring corn?
The Knuckle Dragger
The moment I took this photo I knew that it would some day need to be made into a baseball card. Today is that day.
Superiority
I never tire of looking at Mt. Superior. There is, quite simply, no bad angle on it. Although, I would guess that possibly the best angle, would be the one enjoyed by the skiers in this amazing film clip. An angle that I fully intend to witness first hand… but not likely this season.
