Carl and I left Golden early for a winter ski descent of Mt. Elbert, the tallest peak in the lower 48. Despite being the tallest, it’s one of the easiest 14ers to climb and ski via its trade route, the East Ridge. We were pretty set on skiing the ridge rather than going for the more adventurous Box Creek Chutes due to the avalanche danger which was likely present on steep slopes in the Central Sawatch. Keep reading…
Fresh off Holy Cross, Kiefer and I started stewing about more winter plans. For a long time now I`ve wanted to get a peak in the San Juans on skis, but timing, lack of partners, and lack of snow seemed to always kill off my plans. Kiefer was in no matter what the peak as he is tenaciously at work on his winter list, so I took another look at the San Juans as a possibility. Keep reading…
A short post about our early January Holy Cross trip. In reality, I could never write it up as fluently or colorfully as Kiefer did so I’ll just let his words speak for this one…here’s a link to his TR over at SummitPost. Keep reading…