Headed up to J.L. with Elaine and a couple friends from work. Super deep in the trees, and even the bowl skied well. Things are getting good out there – we've left the early season phase and moved into mid-winter.… Continue reading

…according to these guys. Evidently we beat out the royal wedding. Kind of wild. Right place, right time, great photographer. I guess my favorite part of this photo is just the passion and almost overcome the world element to it.… Continue reading

Computer screen broke on the 26th. Took it to a repair shop, got it back today…relatively inexpensive thanks to a used screen. In the interim reading, eating and skiing. In what is supposed to be a horrible early snow year…well,… Continue reading

Why do I ski? I ski to see the sun at that low angle as it rises over the ridgeline and sends the snow into the most brilliant sparkle. I ski to enter the domain of the lynx, to see… Continue reading

Christmas Eve may have been the best ski of my life. Up to Lost Lake on the Nansens with Elaine. The night was perfect…cold, zero wind, excellent snow. Orion raged overhead, as did the whole Milky Way. And on the… Continue reading

A storm is moving in from the west – ending our December drought – so we skied west today. 20-some-odd kilometers of mostly breaking trail up to King Lake right smack on the divide. It was good skiing, hard work,… Continue reading

Day 36 featured powder turns at Butler Gulch. My very first foray into the world of endurance sports happened around the age of seven or eight while living in Norway.  In the winter, as is customary in Norway, my family… Continue reading

I have to say my job at Neptune is perhaps the best job I've ever had. I get to talk about skis and adventure all day, and get to work with my wife. What's there not to like. Long after… Continue reading