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Flames

Brush fire buring the hillside right above the little town on Toquerville, UT, last Tuesday night. Stone toss from "main street". Folks standing in the streets and in their drive ways watching the fire licking their backyards. Did not see much in terms of firefighting, good thing there was not much wind. Left me feeling erie. Don't think I will shake the 4-mile fire anytime soon.

High and North Facing!

Jason and I got out in the park yesterday. Finally dusted off the skis and found some good snow. High and north facing is still skiing nice and cold! But high alpine lakes are not supposed to be totally thawed in April... Here are a few B-roll images from yesterday. FYI, the park in all it's wisdom has the bear lake road closed until 6 am (6:40 in our case). Get it while it's good!

Perseverance. After dismal conditions down in the bowl, we continued up a steep north facing cooler to find nice soft pow!

A few tentative turns on the committing slope angle (which rolled into a couloir below), before relaxing into just skiing.

Soft turns on the apron! Great day. Thanks Jason. 

Somewhere on Florida's Hidden Coast

Living the good life somewhere along the Big Bend Saltwater Paddling Trail on Florida's Hidden Coast. Nothing like the Florida you might expect - beautiful, undevelop coast line. More on this later. 

Canoe and Kayak Cover!

Current issue of Canoe and Kayak - my dad on the cover! Paddling in the Everglades last December. Really fun to go back to Florida and explore the amazing nature there once you get away from the stripmalls and disneylands... In this issue of C&K I also have a full spread ad from NRS and a full spread image in the gallery. Stoked. Thanks to Canoe and Kayak for the love!

Searching for snow...?

Someone told us it was up here... Chuck taking the skis for a walk around the boulders of Tyndall gorge. 

There it is! Along with some fun looking objectives!

Nik on China Doll

Weekend of climbing and shooting - above, Nik Berry working the trad test peice China Doll in Dream canyon. Nik sent later in the day, nice work Nik! All this sunny weather is really nice, but maybe some snow. Lots of snow would work too... Please?

Big Air!

Chuck and Jocey getting some air time at Vagabond Ranch a few weekends ago. Good times, great friends and good skiing, near the Never Summer Range. I love that name. Never Summer!! Come on winter, we want you back. Really. Bad. 

Women's Adventure Magazine Cover

Women's Adventure Magazine cover, spring '12. Krissy cruising in the Tetons - thanks Krissy and the editors at Women's Adventure. 

"Committed" Slideshow at Neptunes in Boulder

Come out to Neptunes on this Thursday at 8 pm for a slide and video show of my friends Mark and Janelle's mission to climb the 50 classics. Good photos, great short vids and raffle/prizes etc. Good times!

Fresh Stone!

Weekend in the Unaweep canyon near Gateway, CO to get on some "new" (to us) sandstone routes with Joe and Elliot. Good times! Above, Joe contemplating one of the steep, thin crux sections of the 3rd pitch of Black Mama (5.13), one of many cracks still waiting for FFA's or FA's...