Trip Report: Peak 12,691′ Paiute Pass Ridge Chutes – “Ice Fall Chute” | Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA Report from May 30, 2024 After skiing 457 of the past 537 days, I was exhausted and needed an easy tour yesterday. I’d skied 2 chutes off Paiute Pass Ridge last year and knew it was an easy hike for good steep skiing. Time to go back… Peak 12,691′, CA – “Paiute Pass Ridge Chutes” Icefall Couloir Details Summit (actually, this […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 31, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: Peak 12,691′, CA – “Paiute Pass Ridge Chutes” – The Walled Couloir Report from July 8, 2023 Peak 12,691′, CA’s “Paiute Pass Ridge Chutes” – The Walled Couloir yesterday was spicy hot! Ok, ok, we were only gonna do 20 lines for this Eastern Sierra project but we just couldn’t resist chute #21… I saw this well-walled beauty 3-days ago while skiing in this zone for line #20 of the project. I […] Trip Report Miles Clark | July 9, 2023 0 Comments
Trip Report: Peak 12,691′, CA – “Paiute Pass Ridge Chutes” Report from July 6, 2023 12,691′ Paiute Pass Ridge Chutes Yesterday = summer skiing bliss! This was our 20th & final “new-to-us” ski mountaineering line of our 2023 Eastern Sierra Project – “The Twenty Project” (he he). We feel simply ecstatic to have completed this challenging project and to have experienced so many inconceivable zones. We skied 20 different ski […] Trip Report Miles Clark | July 7, 2023 0 Comments
Trip Report: Black Mountain – “North Face Chutes” | Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA Report from June 1, 2024 I was exhausted the past week after skiing 461 of the past 541 days. Yesterday was no exception. I searched for an easy one. One that wouldn’t end me… Black Mountain in Virginia Lakes appeared just right. 11,770′ Black Mountain “North Face Chutes” Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA Summit (actually a ridgeline): 11,700 feet Car: 9,800 feet […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | June 3, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: The “Valdezean Amor Couloir” in the Lamarck Creek Basin | Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA Report from May 3, 2024 We went for a big walk yesterday. The goal was to ski the North Couloir of 13,280-foot Mt. Lamarck, California. A classic beast that has haunted my imagination for many years… “Valdezean Amor Couloir” Lamarck Creek Basin Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA Summit (actually a ridgeline): 13,200 feet Car: 9,300 feet Vertical From Car: 4,600 feet Vertical […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 4, 2024 0 Comments
[VIDEO] SnowBrains Drops Eastern Sierra Ski Project Highlight Video: 21 Lines, 149-Miles, 77k Vertical in 2-Months This spring and summer, Miles Clark and the SnowBrains crew set out to ski 21 “new-to-us” ski mountaineering lines in the Eastern Sierra, CA. We skied lines from Independence to Bridgeport and everything in between. 77,400 vertical feet were climbed for this project, and every single foot was worth it. 149-miles were traveled. It was a wild journey, and we […] SnowBrains | August 4, 2023 1 Comment
Alta, UT Report: Horribly Terrific Conditions in Main Chute on 11,068′ Mt. Baldy on July 19, 2023 Report from July 19, 2020 I arrived in Utah after a long absence on Friday and paddle-boarded the Jordanelle Reservoir after 75 ski days in a row in Mammoth and the Eastern Sierra, CA. I went tubing down the Provo River on Saturday (and got a $140 ticket for no lifejacket…). Paddleboarding the Jordanelle again on Sunday. I spent Monday […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | July 20, 2023 0 Comments
Mammoth, CA to Park City, UT Report: 500% of Average Snowpack, The Clown Motel, Tonopah Cemetery, Cold Springs, 580-Miles of Desert, & a UT Paddle Board Report from July 14, 2023 Friday was our last day in Mammoth Lakes, CA for the season. The snowpack is still at 500% of average for today’s date in Mammoth and the mountain is still skiing so well… We skied fresh corduroy at Mammoth in the morning, hit the road by 9am, jumped in a cold spring with tame fish […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | July 17, 2023 4 Comments