What a joy to experience live music again this summer! It was not without hesitation and much forethought into safe travel and how to go about an experience that would undoubtedly be different given current contexts, but it sure was ...
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A couple of recent ski shots to ring in a New Year! Cheers to a vibrant 2021 everyone!!
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It’s one of the many reasons why being a Sierra Nevada snow slider is so special. Go to sleep one night with bare ground, wake up the next morning to 2+ feet of new snow. It never gets old. In ...
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Hello skiers and riders! Welcome to another backcountry ski season in Lake Tahoe! It hasn’t been the biggest start to a season we’ve ever seen, not by a long shot. But fresh snow did fall as early as September 22nd, ...
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With a stretch of time off for Thanksgiving, the plans were to travel to the PNW and head into B.C. for the holiday. Good ole’ Mt. Baker had been getting pummeled with new snow the week before, and escaping a ...
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By Brennan Lagasse | March 5th, 2012 By now you‘ve probably heard about how much it snows in Japan. The edits keep coming in continuing to show off deep powder shots time and time again; but does it really snow that much? ...
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A Tahoe skier shares how he was able to leave tracks on each of the world’s seven continents Story and photos by Brennan Lagasse It started when I was two. Those first turns, or really that first pizza slide, down ...
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Last May, Ice Axe Expeditions traveled to the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, just 600 miles below the North Pole. There, in one of the most far-off places in the world to ski, I co-guided two groups under 24 hours of ...
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State Of The Backcountry