Winter Reflections

Bohle dropping off of Barrett Spur into 2000+ feet of perfect corn Over Memorial Day weekend, Mt. Hood delivered again, serving up untra...

Crater Lake National Park Smith Rock State Park Oregon is a state of many faces, marked by a wide diversity of landscapes, from the ...

Finding turns in the Joffre Lakes Basin I celebrated my birthday last weekend with a three-day trip to SW British Columbia, continuing t...

Sunrise and Broken Top Mother Nature has been anything but generous to the skiers of the Pacific Northwest so far this year. Bouts of sn...

November corn at Illumination Saddle One of the best parts of living in the Cascades is that feeling of familiarity that grows between...

The "new" lava dome and the Mt. Margaret Backcountry from the crater rim Last weekend saw unseasonably warm weather with a rid...

Bohle dropping the pow On those cold, early mornings, standing above a face of untouched fluff, a chemical reaction inside my head s...

With just one day to play this past weekend, I kept it local and headed up to Mt. Hood to check out the conditions with JB and Ryan.  We...

Marcel Gesmundo eyeing thousands of feet of corn on Mt. St. Helens With sunny weather in Central Oregon and a persistent inversion in th...

The South Side of Mt. Hood from Tom Dick and Harry - January 13, 2013 This January has produced beautiful conditions on Mt. Hood, with l...

Crater Rock and the bootpack towards the Old Chute The first week of January brought relatively calm weather and sunny skies over the Or...

Saturday - Acid Baby Sunday - Mt Adams SW Chutes   Last weekend, Jaime and I pulled off an alpine 2fer - PDX Week...

The Mighty Mt. Rainier Home from Bhutan just over a week, I drove down Interstate 5 on Friday morning after a mid-week meeting in Seattl...

Earlier in February, I was lucky to tag along on a ski trip to the Idaho Selkirks with a bunch of guys who had been making this trip an an...

The conditions over the last two weeks have been kind of strange here in Oregon.  Heavy snows were followed by warm temps and rain, and then...

Kim Crihfield on Taiwan On, 5.10c, Fourth Horseman, Smith R ock This past weekend hopefully marked the end of the freakishly warm and dry...

This is some of best ski footage I've ever seen. Check it out. It may be the best 5 minutes of your day.

The best medicine for withdrawal is a quick fix.  After returning from 10 days of climbing in California, I was still jonesing for more moun...

Improvisation . . . on the fly.  A washed out climb/ski of Mt. Rainier turned into a soggy descent of Lane Peak in the Tatoosh. The origin...

Torrential winter rains in the lowlands pay off with a deep spring snowpack in the mountains. I've been holed up with my head down for ...