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Split-Board Adventures

There is a priceless mind clearing that happens when I spend long days in the wilderness. As movement becomes non stop and repetitive I turn it into a moving meditation.... Read More

In early April Zach Grant, Kelly Gray and I set our sights on the jagged granite peaks of the Tordrillo mountains, a sub range of the massive Alaska Range. To put the scope of this place into perspective, the range could cover the entire state of California. Pin pointing the location we wanted to snowboard was a daunting task full of digital maps, paper topographic, and aerial photography....Read More 

Splitboard mountaineering tours have certain elements that rank them on the totem pole o’ touring. The very best tours include: Aesthetic quality, difficulty, produce adrenaline, and the snow needs to be quality deep powder.  Climbing up and riding down Coalpit Headwall was always looming somewhere near the top of my hit list because it usually possesses all of these qualities.... Read More

Good Morning! At 3am this morning "the sun is shinning" by Bob Marley sounded into a dark cozey bed. I felt like I never actully fell asleep so getting up at the butt crack of dawn wasn't too hard. Zach Grant, John Jammison and I are in a race aginst the sun. Our line choice today is Tanners Gulch; a 3500 ft slide path midway up Little Cottonwood Canyon. The south facing aspect of this sweet line could be deadly if we get there too late in the day and so we start hiking at 4:20am...Read More

There is a place where our continent is hydrologically divided east and west by a sharp alpine massif. Violently thrust thousands of feet into the sky by a collision of tectonic plates, these mountains are now a fascinating splendor for all who gaze upon them....Read More

There is a clearness that is achieved from a walk in the woods, the slash of a powder turn; the drop-in moment where thoughts dissipate and the connection to the present moment is tied. This connection is magnetic and it's source is worth striving for....Read More

Only a mention from a friend evoked our journey to the elusive Jackson ski cabin. We didn’t need to ask questions, the cabin is so special that even the forest service couldn’t bear to tear it down when the Gros Ventre Wilderness was established in the 1950’s. From our shelves flew gear for whatever the trip might throw at us;  big packs, -20 degree sleeping bags, camp cooking gear, solar power, split-boarding equipment, rescue essentials, a good ol’ flask of whiskey and other adventure supplies...Read More

To live on a glacier in the midst of spring
Adventure-seeking souls converging
Clouds obscure ridgelines and excitement shrinks Our practice in patience emerging.... Read More

Seeing it all in the alpine glow of sunrise elated us and we excitedly stuffed our forty-five liter Gregory ski packs as if they were seventy liter packs. Winter camping requires more; more layers, more food, more fuel, and in turn, you have more fun. You then top it all off with all the tools necessary for splitboard mountaineering on glaciated terrain and not one strap goes unemployed as the weight stacks up....Read More

​The greatest part of being a Utah native is the proximity to the mountains and the desert. The rugged vastness of the desert southwest has a brutal beauty...Read More

Anchorage, AK is sleepy as the plane touches down in the eerie orange glow of the rare blood-moon light. Star gazing tail gators line the beach, basking in the lunar spectacle with white Alaskan peaks reflecting off the salt water. The musky air smells like fresh rain on spruce trees, spring has started its transition........
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Seattle Ridge, Alaska

Alaska- Seattle ridge

Rising from the ocean's Turnagain Arm, is a beautiful head wall called Seattle Ridge. Zach, Kelly, Semi, and I started off at a leisurely 10am to ride this virgin line. ​

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Powder Whore

Peterson Creek, Alaska

Alaska- Peterson Creek

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