Skookum Glacier

 Ivan Ramirez and I explored on snowmachines up the Skookum Glacier.  This was my first time ever snow machining on a glacier, and my mind was blown.  It was a life changing experience.

Valdez Skiing

Just got back from an awesome bunch of days skiing in Valdez. I met a bunch of great people and enjoyed day after day of clear weather. Above is Kellie skiing a run with Mt. Diamond in the backround. Below is the E. face of Staircase...we skied a bunch of the couloirs shown.






The photo to the left here shows us approaching staircase, and at the bottom is us approaching Promise Land, another awesome area. We skied a bunch of lines on the shady face. Not visible in any of these photos is the 2000' approach from the road, which gets you to the base of the runs. It makes for a big last run of the day. Fun!

Alpenglow

Here are some photos from the top of Alpenglow the other day. It was the last 12 hours of our 9 day high pressure spell.  It was nice to stand on top after always looking at it across the inlet while driving the Seward Highway.   

A solo outing, I traveled up the obvious sun/shade ridge in the photo below, then skied the shady face below the summit. This photo was taken from a point about half way between the car and top.

Valdez Ice

I've been slacking on posting lately, but in the beginning of March I went to Valdez with Jon, Tanya and Lynn for some ice climbing. We had great conditions, sunny days and cold temps. To the left is Jon and Tanya on Big Brother, and just below is me on How to Make a Monster. At the very bottom is Wowie Zowie, which was in awesome shape at WI5+...it's usually a 6 I guess. Hopefully Jon will send me his photos of me leading Twisted Sister and I'll post them here.

Jon and I did Wowie Zowie...