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Skiing The Slot on Snoqualmie Mountain
Andre, who is also taking some time off work (but has been out of town), emailed the other day asking if I wanted to ski “The Slot” on Snoqualmie Mountain. (Photo from Pro Ski’s awesome Snoqualmie...
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Skiing the Chair Peak Circum Nav
Met up with another random skier off Turns All Year on Saturday. He was looking to do a circum nav of Chair Peak in the Alpental Valley. Sure, why not? :) We started from the furthest out Alpental...
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Mount Shuksan Second Attempt
In my quest to ski as much as possible during my sabbatical I had signed up for a Pro Guiding Sahale Peak trip and convinced Shawn to join me. Unfortunately we couldn’t do Sahale since the road was...
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McNett MiraZyme – Only Thing That Cleaned My Ski Boots
I have really sweaty feet and as a result every time I go skiing I soak my ski boot liners. And even though I have a ski boot dryer that I use pretty religiously my ski boots still stink. I’ve tried a...
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Lost: Single K2 Darkside 181
Since it worked for my bike thought I’d give blogging about my lost ski in the hopes that someone finds it and Googles “lost K2 Darkside Stevens Pass backside” :). Back in February on our way heli...
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Points North Heli Alaska – aka ManCamp
This post is like two years late. Oh well… Here it is! Most of it was written before one of our guides, Kip Garre tragically passed away this spring. Kip, thanks for showing us Alaska. Before reading...
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Stuff to do: In the winter, ski (obviously). I also recommend backcountry skiing with Coast Mountain Guides. In the summer, mountain bike (obviously) or take the gondola and go hiking. Spa day at the...
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Matt’s Guide to Skiing in Niseko
When to go January is the snowiest month by far. But beware that it is “busy” over Chinese New Year. We inadvertently booked over Chinese New Year and Australia Day. However, we didn’t find it very...
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Matt’s Guide to Hakuba
Getting there We took the train from Sapporo to New Chitose airport, then flew Fuji Dreams (booked through JAL) to Matsomoto, took a bus from there to the Matsomoto train station, and from there a...
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Vertfest Photo Clinic Trip Report
I’m a terrible photographer but aspiring to be a better one. The first big step forward I made this year was upgrading my Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2, which I loved because it was waterproof, but sadly my...
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