State Of The Backcountry

As we gained a high bench on our skin, the view of this fluted spine wall was inspiring to say the least. We had seen it from the road, and sometimes the air while flying into Cordova, but neither Jeff ...

Honored to be featured skiing on the cover of the new Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal with a banger shot taken by photographer Court Leve. The shot was taken while I was on assignment guiding for Ice Axe Expeditions in Antarctica last November. ...

I’m very excited to announce a new Himalaya Alpine Guide Program that will take place in Ladakh, India from this May 28th-June 11th. Along with Lead Guide and Company owner Luke Smithwick, we will be exploring a relatively unclimbed/unskied portion ...

The numbers are staggering. 20-25+ feet of snow fell on the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the month of January. It was a record month for snowfall, smashing the old January record by several feet. In fact, January was the snowiest month on ...

The good news is that there is plenty of backcountry skiing and riding to be done in the Sierra right now, especially around the mountains of Lake Tahoe. The bad news, much of the precipitation that fell during the fall ...

Happy New Year and Holy Storms! Since the last State of the Backcountry report conditions have changed dramatically across the American West. Specifically for Tahoe and the Eastern Sierra, the New Year has brought a wave of storm activity that some ...

From famed Sierra Cement, to flooding, and back into an epic powder cycle January 09, 2017 By David Reddick  What a whirlwind it’s been for the weather watchers and ski lovers in the Lake Tahoe region. On the one hand ...

It’s the first day of winter and snow has been steadily falling across the American West for weeks. In the Sierra, the northern portion of the range just weathered its wettest fall in 30 years. You’d think that would translate ...