State Of The Backcountry

Black Diamond Equipment (BD) makes just about every piece of ski gear you need to get into the backcountry, and get home safely. As the Tahoe area BD Ski Ambassador, three of my favorite pieces of BD gear that I ...

Writer Devon O’Neil captures a piece of the 2013 PNH Tour Camp season. We picked up more than 20 feet of new snow over the course of our 2013 season. Our man Wes-Slay Stomp-Son had endured the “Cordova Snowpocalypse” of ...

And then it snowed. After 20+ days of high pressure, bluebird conditions in the Chugach, something was bound to give. At the end of our previous week the writing was on the wall. Although the storm wasn’t that big for ...

It was another banner week for PNH Tour Camp. While everyone’s fired up that it’s finally snowing in the zone after almost three straight weeks of a proper Rex Block, the sunny skies have allowed for the exploration Jeff Dostie and ...

With high pressure in place, Tour Camp continued to fire this past week in the Chugach. Under sunny skies with workable stability, fantastic skiing was found on almost every aspect. From the spines of “Dan O’s”, to mellow powder fields ...

It’s the beginning of spring and the 2014 Alaskan ski season is firing on all cylinders. In Cordova, the Points North Heli-Adventures Tour Camp is off and running having weathered just about every type of condition Mother Nature has to offer. We’ve ...

Stoked to have contributed to six great ski publications this winter wearing a few different hats: -Powder, Dec. 2012, Chugach, AK (Writer) -Backcountry Magazine, Jan. 2014, Hot Springs Ranch, Nevada (Athlete) -Frequency, 11.3, Chugach, AK (Points North Heli-Adventures Ski Guide; Photographer) -Freeskier, Dec. 2013, ...

What winter loving Californian doesn’t want to get out and stretch their legs a bit, tap into a snowcentric workout, and take in some world-class views? Yes there’s global weirding and the Sierra Nevada is currently grinding out its third ...