Keeping Your Cool in the Cold; How to keep your hands and feet warm on a frigid, sweaty ski tour. “To lesson the likelihood of Raynaud’s attacks avoid the following; exposure to cold weather, drinking/eating caffein, touching cold objects, perspiring, cool/moist environments, and stressful thoughts or
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How to Fake It Some Indian Creek tips to help you get by until it starts to feel right I am a woman who fakes it. And I’m willing to share my trade secrets with you. I’ve duped my clients, my employer, the American Mountain Guides Association
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Summatime. I’ll be headed south from Alaska in May to join the ranks of International Mountain Guides and the Northwest Mountain School in Washington for a season of alpine climbing, mountaineering and rock climbing. The Rainier stint kicks off first with multiple trips up the big
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Norway or bust!!! The stars have aligned. I’ll be heading to the Lofoten Islands of Norway again this year to soak up the turns in yet another tiny fishing village turned ski mecca. The Lofoten Islands are situated halfway (well, most of the way) up the coast
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Skiing is on the mind all day, every day, all winter here in Colorado’s San Juan mountains. Silverton, the town we’re proud to call home, is situated smack dab in the middle of a backcountry ski mecca. There are dozens of couliors everywhere you look, the
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The Wrangell -St. Elias National Park is unlike any other climbing destination in the United States. It is massive. Combined with its neighbor, Canada’s Kluane National Park, it is the largest protected wilderness area on the planet. A place so remote that you may not simply be
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