High on cedar
Alpine strollin’ in the Madison Range
The email from my manager, stern but instructive, arrived Wednesday afternoon.
Skiing up a storm
The weather’s wet. The snow’s suspect. The trek’s treacherous. Other than that, springtime in Glacier is grand.
Frozen June snow covered the steep west face of Trapper Ridge as I zigzagged between wind-stunted Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir, aiming for the tiny saddle above.
(Head Trip)
Chasing snow ghosts
A years-long search comes to its end on Downing Mountain
My heart rate is somewhere around 160 beats per minute.
(Head Trip) Dec 1, 2012
Powder, peeps and PBR
How to survive when you’re in a world of yurts
The wife and I arrive at the agreed-upon meeting spot approximately 11 miles from the yurts.
Dec 1, 2012
Take it to the limit
A sports fan’s friendly wager leads to a sportsman’s dream hunt
Though the words differ only by a space and a letter, the worlds of the sportsman and the sports fan are leagues apart.
(Head Trip) Sep 1, 2012
Mind over mountain
Climbing Glacier's Mount St. Nicholas requires some gear and a lot of nerve
Under a smoky gauze of September sky, I wedged my back into the cold, dihedral, dangled my legs over a narrow ledge and peered 4,000 feet down to the V-necked bottom of Coal Creek. Mount Doody, sharp as a wolf's tooth, stood directly across the way. I shuddered and forced a deep breath. This was all wrong.
(Head Trip) May 28, 2012
Oh, Pioneers!
A newbie backpack trip to Torrey Lake that would make Darwin proud
The Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway carried me deeper into the valley between the high, jagged eastern peaks and timbered, gently sloping West Pioneers, meandering past flowered meadows wet with streams, grassland ranges speckled with livestock, and thick lodgepole forests. The mountains captivated me—I knew I couldn't be satisfied with just one bike trip. I needed to get into them, on foot.
(Head Trip) May 28, 2012
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