Alta Backcountry: Living and Exporing in Wild Places

  • A wee little jaunt in the hills tomorrow, shall we? Continue reading

  • Stella’s First Day Above Timberline

    Stats: 1,523 feet vertical climbed, max elevation 11,340 feet. (new goal – average 1,500 vertical climbed per day. Some days will be more, some days might be none, but that's a general average. Seems doable.) It's good to get up… Continue reading

  • Emotional Control

    "All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, mange to conquer every obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning is illogical, losing is still far from optional."… Continue reading

  • How to conquer any situation: Divide it into thirds. tackle the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart Continue reading

  • Twas a nice morning up there today. Headed up through the old ghost town, due west, to the mine and then straight up. Snow quality was marginal – lots or warmth and wind this week – so decided to climb… Continue reading

  • Matt Chester?!

    It may be coming… I'm getting kind of stoked actually. Maybe this is what I need to fall back in love with riding – a new singlespeed whip! Dreams of lush green spring mornings, the smell of moist roads, the… Continue reading

  • 8 am patrol?

    I don't have a whole lot to say tonight but I want to get into a pattern. So there is place a few miles up the road from where I live where I ski on a regular basis. It's good.… Continue reading

  • Wave sequence

    I thought I'd share this. I'm hesitant to show my photos to people because I feel like it's pretentious. But I thought folks might appreciate these. This was two days ago. I went for this hike on the coast and… Continue reading

  • Climbing Camp

    These images were shot during our climbing camp in late-July in the Wind River Mountains. We had just moved into the cirque to the west of Gannett Peak and were welcomed by very unsettled weather. Every day we would head… Continue reading

  • Techno Dawn

    Rise. The day begins. The sun burns. Behind the cast of grey. Today we flame. Today we smile. The beat, the pulse. It tremors, it quivers. Do you feel the thrill? I do, I do. The lungs filled as we… Continue reading