Got a great weekend of skiing over the beginning of Feb. Saturday was really cold and surprisingly the conditions were only so-so. However, Sunday we went to the East Face of Gobbler’s Knob and found some fantastic snow, although the shots were on the short side for the long walk. Nevertheless it was perhaps some […]
2024-01-27 Joe’s Valley Dual Sport Day
We’ve been at the house a few weeks straight and we decided to head to Joe’s Valley Friday night to climb a little ice and boulder on Saturday. The ice around Utah has been pretty terrible, but the reports were that a few things were in at Joe’s Valley. I’ve only climbed once before in […]
2024-01-21 Skiing the Church
After a drought for a good portion of December and the beginning of January a huge storm cycle brought lots of new snow and water weight to the snowpack. This unfortunately ramped up a persistent weak layer in the snowpack so skiing lower angle and more treed slopes has been the wise choice. On Saturday […]
2023-12 Arizona Trip
December 23-30, 2023 Winter in the Rocky Mountain West has been lackluster this year, not just in comparison to our record breaking year in 2022-23, but in general. Depending on the SNOTEL station, we are sitting around 75% of median, not terrible, but we also haven’t gotten appreciable snow in about three weeks. Not the […]
2023-12 Bozeman Ice Fest
December 1–10, 2023 I decided to head up to the Bozeman Ice Fest this year. It has been a couple years since I was there and I didn’t have any work responsibilities so I thought it would be a nice time to go. I opted to go up the weekend before and stay with Case. […]