It has been a weird season this year with regards to the snowfall in the Sierras and I haven’t been able to get much out in the Backcountry. This weekend however was dedicated to earning our turns and I had a blast doing so with my buddy Kyle. We decided to ski Carson peak on…
Early in the season, We were planning a trip to Alps for Haute route but the lack of snow in Alps plus the crazy storms in the Sierras made us abandon that plan and instead we signed up for this trip. Usually people do Rock creek to Mammoth in 3-5 days but this itinerary includes…
Mt Ritter has been on my list of peaks to ski for a really long time and as soon as I found out about the Ritter Range tour offered by Sierra Mountain Guides, this trip has been on my bucket list. I had signed up for this in October of last year and have been…
Last year I wanted to do more backcountry skiing but my injury and a low snow year dashed those hopes quickly but this year I was determined to get more backcountry exposure so I signed up for Sawtooth’s Traverse with SMG. Nicolas signed up with me to make the tour a certainty and we ended…
Since climbing Mt Shashta last year on my own i was very keen on climbing Denali and figured this year would be a good time to do so. Once i got the vacation approved i had to go for it after E3 since at that time i was working with G4, it also mean’t that…
This is final post in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. Alpine Ascents has a great 6 month training program and if you want to follow that here is the link. I don’t want to give out a training regimen or some generic guidelines…
This is part 4 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. July 9th It was a beautiful day and we could have made a summit attempt but it was a scheduled rest day and rightly so. Everyone including me was pretty beat up from…
This is part 3 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. Jun 30th It was 5am and we decided to take a short nap before waking up at 9am to have pizza for dinner. The wind had really picked up and we were getting…
This is part 2 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. As the day of departure came close i was feeling really confident and wanted to make sure that i had everything booked and taken care of. To my surprise i found that i…
This is part 1 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. After confirming my 3 weeks of vacation I signed up with Alpine Ascents for Denali guided expedition sometime in October of 2012 so i had plenty of time to train. At that time…