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Deadmou5 – While (1<2)
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Granite
April 10, 2010 Jerry, Alex and Carrie attempt Granite Mountain A spur of the moment ski tour. Weather was supposed to be warm with “filtered sunlight.” There’d been a couple feet of snow at pass level during the last week. The avalanche center was saying considerable danger over 5,000 ft. on Friday going …
Meany
January 23, 2001 Mr. Kurt MillerWarren Miller Entertainment2540 Frontier AvenueSuite 104Boulder, CO 80301 Dear Kurt: With your father living in the San Juans and you being around Seattle off and on for a long time, you must have heard about The Mountaineers – those guys with the long lines of climbers going up Mt. Rainier in the …
Mt. Baldy 2007
February 4, 2007 Jerry and Will Ski Mt. Baldy One of the attractions of Harvey Mudd was that even though it was located in sourthern California there was skiing only thirty minutes away. That seemed like a shorter distance than certain other campuses in Pittsburgh or upstate New York advertised. When we dropped Will …
Mt. Bachelor 2007
March 10 – 14, 2007 Jerry and Will go to Bachelor Will flew home from college late on Friday night with his ski gear. Saturday we went to the Apple store to drop off his computer for repair and then hit the road for Bend. We drove over via Biggs Junction and it took exactly …
Whitehorse
May 17, 2007 Whitehorse via the standard route Official Mountaineers climb (with Art & Jeff and Brett Dyson and Sloan Brockman and a couple other guys.) Left cars at 6:00 AM, summitted at about 1:00, single strand rappel off the summit while Art skied it, back to cars at 6:30 after about 7,200 total …
Ski Gear
I started snowboarding on a used Rosignol with strap bindings. I was looking for a backcountry tool and before I could even really ride I started experimenting with plate bindings and plastic ski-mountaineering and climbing boots. I eventually learned to make turns in my Scarpas, but they were never really satisfactory. I couldn’t get around …
Ski Story
I don’t have very many good ski stories. I skied a couple of times at Anthony Lakes while growing up in Baker, but it was expensive and I had a job on weekends. (I remember going to Little Alps once – a lost area in the same basin as Anthony Lakes.) I did some winter …
Spider Gap 2000
SPIDER GAP TO HOLDEN The week before labor day in 2000 Will and I hiked from Phelps Creek to Holden. On Saturday morning Odette dropped us off at the Phelps creek trailhead (about three miles from the old mining town of Trinity.) It was a day of broken clouds with a forecast of unsettled weather …