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October 23, 2017October 23, 2017

Thunder’s (Dan) CDT Wrap and Impressions

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Up and at ‘em before work for a morning ski to the lake to check on the ice. ❄️🎿🏔#skiing #ski #åsnes #amundsensports #nordic #wilderness

No flat trails around these parts. Thanks Stephanie Weber for the shot! ❄️💪🎿#nordicskiing #skiing #ski #climbing #getoutside #amundsensports

To the local backyard: you are not perfect. It doesn’t snow quite enough, the wind blows the snow around, there are too many people and Boulder attitude is a bit much. But the thing is, I love this place. Because when you climb the mountains here, with the blasting divide winds at your face, winds coming directly from glaciers that are the remnants of a much wilder time, on the very spine of the North American continent, and you cross the 40th parallel of the planet every single day, you feel like for a second you’re doing something in a place that is so beautiful in its wild harshness, that it might even matter a little bit. Everyday, at least for a few seconds, I feel like I’m in Lord of the Rings, facing hardship and discomfort and then overcoming the hardship to hopefully come out a little bit better person on the other side. That’s kind of why we do the shit we do. This really ain’t no bougie ski resort. This is the northern Front Range, and there is an edge to it, and it’s perfection lies in all its imperfections. 🏔💨❄️❤️#home #skiing #ski #mountains #amundsensports #livesimply #northernfrontrange #fjallraven @elainevardamis #dronephotography

Somewhere up there in those mountains that @elainevardamis is heading into in this picture, a 27-year old man disappeared about two weeks ago and hasn’t been found yet. The day he headed out, February 3rd, it was a warm morning, but by 1 pm a ferocious cold wind and snow storm blew in, and it hasn’t really relented since. By that evening, as search and rescue rendezvoused near our home, it was a full-on blizzard and our home shook in the wind. Above timberline, in these conditions, it would be devastating, and incredibly easy to succumb to the elements. It’s a sad, humbling story (though we all cling to some hope he is somehow alive), and proof that these glaciated mountains, close as we may be to a major metropolitan area, are wild and unforgiving. Yesterday we skied to the turnoff of the drainage they think he’s lost in. Not a trail had been broken, just deep snow, avalanche terrain and winter at her most ferocious. It felt lonely and forlorn, and it made us want to venture into it, with a strong crew, to break trail and see if we can find him. #mountains #lost #wild #hope #winter

Nobody I’d rather ski around the winter woods with on a -10 degree F Valentine’s Day than life partner-in-crime @elainevardamis - cold air but warm hearts (and wood burning stove)! ❤️🎿❄️☃️#winter #cold #skiing #snow #åsnes #amundsensports #valentinesday2021 #mountains

Closed out the month of January and celebrated our 80th day skiing of the season in the best way possible - a night nordic ski tour away from people. No sense getting down about a low snow year...you can have a hella lotta fun on a “below average snowpack.” Best of all, the three (and sometimes four) snowiest months of the year are coming up! Location: 3 miles from the spot of the snowiest 24 hour bounty in the history of the lower-48, 75 inches at Silver Lake, April 14, 1921. Let’s have a repeat! 🏔⛷💪#skiing #nightskiing #nordicskiing #åsnes #amundsensports #getoutside #getoutstayout #snow @elainevardamis

The next full moon is the Wolf Moon, my favorite moon and my favorite animal. Beautiful night tonight at 9,000 feet, air still, not a human out, valley echoing with with the cries of a Great Horned Owl. Five miles to the west, the storm begins to brew and the biggest glacier in all of Colorado grows. Even in a low tide year, we are blessed. This mountain life, it’s a good one. 🌌🌲🏔❤️#mountains #rockymountains #continentaldivide #fullmoon #winter #january #night #hygge

The real insurrection isn’t happening at the Capitol (those “patriots” are fucking lunatics and cowards), but instead in the woods, where we’re bound and determined to make America compassionate, equal, healthy and wild again, one kick and glide at a time. 🎿🏔🌲🌌#skiing #ski #nordicskiing #crosscountryskiing #nightskiing #getoutside #getoutstayout #amundsensports #åsnes

Sunrise in the valley. 🏔🔥❤️#sunrise #sun #morning #snow #winter Music by @coldplay

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