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Learn the Telemark Turn
Learn to telemark using this easy to follow progression:
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Category: Backcountry Skiing
Marcus Libkind: Sentinel of the Sierraโs Winter Wildlands
For nearly 40 years, the guidebook author and backcountry guardian has answered the call for the...
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Catching Up with โShred-Stickerโ
Cody Townsend has had a big year. As if taking second at the invitation-only Big Mountain Freeskiing and Riding Comp in the European Alps (only eight international skiers were invited) and winning the Red Bull Cold Rushโs Chinese Downhill Championship this past winter, he also had the luck to ski with Chris Davenport in the Chugach Range in Alaska for a segment in the latest Warren Miller installment, Playground.
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Ice, Wind, Cold, and Sierra Cement
Four days into a 50-mile winter trek, our team reached a steep and formidable icy slope. We quickly recognized that this grade was our most hazardous obstacle so far, because to climb it we would have to risk a wild slide down an incline that would drop a skier several hundred feet below, and not at all gently.
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Destination: Carson Pass/Hope ValleyโAbundant Stashes of Alpine Charm
Of the three passes that climb over the Sierra in winter, Carson Pass is the highest (8,574 feet), most spectacular and least trafficked. Drive up on a sun-splashed winter morning with glittering fresh snow and youโll be overcome with feelings of alpine lust.
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Train for Snow
Whatโs the deal with winter? If you are anything like me, winter is generally a bad time for fitness and outdoor sports. Oh sure, I try every year to resist the lure of massive holiday overeating, but inevitably I am ten pounds heavier and in lousy shape come spring. Then I spend spring and summer getting back into shape and the whole cycle starts againโfit and motivated in the summer, lazy, fat and uninspired in the winter. Gaining fitness in the summer; gaining weight in the winter. You get the picture.
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GEAR: Tele vs. AT โ A Matter of Preference
Telemark and AT (Alpine Touring) gear are all the rage these days. Theyโre proliferating at ski areas as fast as in the backcountry. The latest gear is half the weight and twice the performance of what you might expect. With one setup, you can comfortably tour the Sierra backcountry and hit the steeps at Squaw Valley. The choice to drop your knee or not is a tough one. Donโt sweat it if you canโt decide; the skills you develop in one discipline will help you conquer the other should you wish to switch later.
Read MoreMake the Most of the Snow Season
So you canโt afford to spend a week with Mike and the folks at Wiegele Heliskiing? Canโt even afford a season pass and the airfare for Whistler-Blackcomb? Thatโs OK. Even a budget skier can find some ways to make the most of this snow season.
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Shasta Climbing Season Extended
Wet spring helped preserve snow for summer climbing and skiing Donโt put away those skis and crampons yet! Weeks of cool temps and steady moisture through June have kept Mt. Shastaโs snowy flanks in prime shape leaving the window open for stellar late season climbing and skiing well into July and perhaps beyond.
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An original, firsthand account of the remarkable first ski crossing of Tioga Pass
Editorโs Note: This account, previously never published, was written by Dennis Jones in the late 1950s, and is provided courtesy of Starr Walton Hurley, niece of Dennis Jones, and Norm Sayler, president of the Donner Summit Historical Society. The story below contains some added detail from that was merged into the story from another typed retelling of the adventure that Jones wrote some time later.
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