Ski Salt Lake Shootout: Take 3
Tweet No matter what the conditions, the Visit Salt Lake Shootout produces incredible images every year. It is also one of my favorite events of the season. This was my third Shootout and this year I teamed up with Mike Schirf, Marcus Caston, and Ty Peterson to attack the Wasatch. The Shootout is …read the rest
UOP Recap
Tweet It’s been awhile since I got out of my safety bubble. It’s not that I don’t scare myself on skis, I ski exposed lines where my heart is in my throat, or climb scary routes, but none of these require air awareness. It’s a skill I’ve always lacked. Back in the days of skiing …read the rest
Day One at the Utah Olympic Park
Tweet Taken from the Mountain Athlete website, read the full piece there! Fear and Flipping in Park City “Sometimes the best thing to do is just do it. When my athletes are trying a new trick, I never give them any direction the first time. I just tell them to try,” …read the rest
Tweet Coach Shaul interviewed Hadley and I about our gear choices for our Teton trip: My Gearlist Essentials: Marmot – Trailight tent Marmot – Helium 15 degree bag Thermarest – Prolite Plus Sleeping Pad Marmot – Freya 40L pack Scarpa – Shaka touring boot Volkl – Nanuk ski 170 Dynafit – Vertical binding Black …read the rest
Pushing the Summit
Tweet Heading into the backcountry to ski spring/summer conditions, with a brand new partner, in a mountain range you’ve never entered is a generally a bad idea. Climbing and skiing partnerships are earned not forced. Hadley and I haven’t known each other long. We’re both Marmot athletes, but last weekend’s adventure in Teton National Park …read the rest
Glacier Rhone
Tweet A few years ago the book and movie “The Edge of Never” by Bill Kerig made its way through the ski community. Everybody I skied with either read the book or watched the movie. Somehow, I missed it. Fast forward three years and I meet Bill Kerig as a board member at Spy …read the rest
First Segment of Backyards is Dropping!
Tweet Last year, I traveled up to Targhee and Jackson Hole to ski with Mike Leake and work with Futuristic Films. The project was “Backyards”, a made for TV short movie. Check out the first segment of Mike and I.
I can, I can, I can, I can, I can… (no thinking allowed)
Tweet Something strange happened on Friday night: as I was laying in bed thinking about the race, I suddenly realized that I had no idea how to prepare mentally. What was I meant to visualize?Running, and running, and running like the little engine that could? For the first time in a very long time, I …read the rest
All You Ladies and No Male Leadership?
Tweet Yes, that’s right Mr. park ranger. 15 ladies, one yurt, one tent, and one snow cave. Two days in the backcountry on the SheJumps Third Annual Winter Camping Trip. No Male leadership. And no, we didn’t need it. Thank you for asking. Last Friday fifteen of us packed our packs full of winter camping …read the rest
Product Testing: Tried and True in Bishop, California
Tweet Last weekend, I joined Re and her coworkers at Backcountry.com on a trip to Bishop, California. Our goal? To review tents, sleeping bags, and an assortment of packs. Another couple days in the sun you say? You don’t have to ask this girl twice. As the next storm system shuttled into the Wasatch, Re …read the rest
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