Sunday night in west Boulder Country. What a turnaround! What was the slowest starting ski season I've ever seen suddenly has taken a massive positive leap forward. It started snow Friday and it hasn't really stopped. Nothing huge, but it's… Continue reading

I’m not going to say I was super amped when Dan suggested at 10 pm last night that we head up to A-Basin for the 7 am start of a race. Heck, the Irwin race just got canceled, I was… Continue reading

A lazy evening at the shop listening to Christmas music, talking skis with the occassional Monday customer, waiting for snow. It seems like there's been a lot of waiting his winter. We still essentially have no snow, something I've never… Continue reading

Morning ski, watch World Cup skiing over cocoa at Tin Shed, long afternoon nap, sunset run and ski exercises, feast of a meal tonight at the bosses Christmas dinner. A good day! Continue reading

Team Mammoth Slayers has secured an entry into this year's Elk Mountain Traverse. Round 2 here we go! Let it snow buckets and buckets! Continue reading

Last night was the Neptune Mountaineering Fashion Show that Elaine organized so it was a late night getting the place pulled-down. Managed to get up to Eldora – we're still waiting for real snow – for ten runs of practice… Continue reading

Back up at the mountain, making subtle but definite progress. Relearning the art of trusting the ski, really leaning into the turn, finding the perfect carve. We did drills, we skied, we watched the storm clouds hover below us, teasingly.… Continue reading

Elaine and I were recently put in charge of events at Neptune Mountaineering. The emphasis has been on backcountry skiing (and some climbing) and building a ski culture in Boulder, Colorado. It's been a good run so far, with Chris… Continue reading

The wait for snow goes on. This year is dry, even by recent standards, as the below graph illustrates. Things are lagging, badly, and there isn't much hope on the horizon. The thing with being a skier during times like… Continue reading