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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...
Adults Say The Darndest Things – Turns All Year Edition
It takes a special breed of human to want to hike and climb to ski every month of the year. They possess a passion for unpredictable adventures and a love of manky snow, and mostly they are owners of many layers of Gore-Tex. These weirdos are my people: we are Turns...
Turns All Year: Months 94 & 95
At some point in my Turns All Year journey, I figured out the secret of the Aug-Sept twofer. You go to Wy'east (Mt. Hood) over Labor Day weekend to ski chair lifts for the last "free" skiing of the year. If you're lucky, Labor Day falls over the end of August and the...
Turns All Year: Month 93
I have never skied alone - that is, until Turns All Year Month 93! With limited availability and a lack of desire to coordinate with anyone, I scooted up to Mt. Rainier solo. The skiing was a far cry from the best July turns ever last year, but hey, it was skiing. I...
Turns All Year: Month 92
Skiing in June can be a crap shoot, but for Month 92 of Turns All Year I rolled hard eights. Anticipating a light summer in terms of skiing, I got out on the first day of the month, only to ski two more days in June's first week! Saturday, June 1, 2019 - Silver Peak I...
