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Turns All Year: Month 99
After skiing every month for the last 98 months in a row, I faced an all-new challenge for month 99. Powder Panic. 'Powder Panic': a collective flocking of snow-deprived skiers to the local hills in a volume so great that it completely overwhelms and incapacitates...
What Kind of Bailer Are You? Round II
Last year, we mutually agreed that we’re bailers. You bail. I bail. We bail. This begs the question: What type of bailer are you? Since it’s not a matter of when you'll bail, but how, Theresa and I created a list of the different types of bailers. In...
So, You’re Gonna Lose a Toenail
Congratulations! Your toenail turned all of the colors and is going to fall off. Don't despair. Follow these tips* to embrace the 6-12 month regrowing process to welcome your new nail with grace and dignity. First things first, mitigate the pain. Whether you jammed...
Turns All Year: Month 98
After an exciting start to the regular, lift-accessed ski season (wherein I nearly missed month 97 because of a clerical error), I enjoyed six glorious days of uphill and downhill skiing in December. Beginning December 14, I had one day in bounds, one day sidecountry,...
Happy New Year! 2020 Edition
At the end of December, it's fun to reflect back on smile-filled memories and consider what things we'd like to leave behind as we enter a New Year. A lot of things made me smile in 2019: exertional flatulence, outdoor camping fails, snot rockets, Chaco creep, car...
The Skill to Send Ratio
Dodging roots and rocks is par for the course, but I don’t expect to contend with flying limbs and uncontrolled metal to boot. I grew up in Montana, where there’s only seven people per square mile. Learning to ski in big sky country meant lots of open space to slide...
Turns All Year: Month 97
After skiing every month for 96 months in a row, I never imagined that I might miss month 97 because of a clerical oversight. Once described as a "magnificent planner”, as I get older I seem to be less and less capable of keeping track of the little things. For...
New Beginnings: A Place to be Yourself
For the December 1, 2019 edition of Mountaineer magazine, I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Luis Campos to share his story. I don't do much writing for the magazine these days, and I felt extremely lucky to draw this story. Luis has an ease about him, a...
Do You Even Tetris Bro?
The coin-colored Subaru Impreza sits low with the weight of metal and plastic and human flesh. We drive purposefully south, into the good weather window we hope will carry us all the way to the summit of Tahoma (Mount Rainier). Going into the weekend, so full of...
