Sierra Nevada, CA Alpine Conditions Report: Quick update to our last report on July 1, as things in the high country are changing quite rapidly. As we have been reporting, the Sierra remains in a steady stream of daily thunderstorm activity from monsoonal air flow and warm, moist air rising that condenses clouds, resulting in precipitation and electrical activity. Precipitation has been in the form of intense short or, in some cases, up to a couple sustained hours of rain or hail. High and […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 9, 2015 0 Comments
High Sierra, CA Alpine Conditions Report: Hope you are all enjoying summer at this point. We are! After the driest winter on record, the High Sierra experienced one of the wettest calendar months ever. The town of Bishop hit May records for amount of rainfall and consecutive days with precipitation. In June, mountain weather has remained somewhat unusual with daily high temperatures spanning more than 30 degrees F in many locations. Conditions Report Guest Author | July 2, 2015 3 Comments
2015 New England Backcountry Highlight Video The winter of 14-15 was really quite good in the northeast, including a couple of excellent stretches where the only sustained snow that fell in the lower 48 fell on New England. Simply put, the jet stream blessed us this year and folks made sure to take full advantage. Let’s hope the weather gods spread the love west next year so that everybody can get in on the party. Things started well with several […] Guest Author | June 11, 2015 1 Comment
Mt. Shasta Ski Conditions Report: June 2015 Although the skiing is winding down for this season, there is still plenty of good turns to be found for the adventurous and those willing to work a little harder. Polly Layton skied with Anne and Cynthia and scored 3 days of great fun from Hidden Valley. The ladies charged, were fit and motivated, and skied both the lightening bolt on Shastina and the West Face on Mt. Shasta. Polly reported some of the best ski conditions she’s had on the mountain. A little bit of new snow smoothed the route and made for awesome summer skiing! Congrats, you set the new record for the Cascade 2 […] Conditions Report Guest Author | June 11, 2015 0 Comments
Skiing Thy Myth & Majesty of Patagonia’s Cerro San Lorenzo Patagonian is known as place of vast lands, emptiness and specially by its two icon peaks Cerro Torre and Fitz roy that both rounds the 3200/ 3300 mts, and are famous for their golden granite and ice mushrooms fantasy terrain that they offer. But usually, people dont talk much about the Skiing peaks in Patagonia, which are a golden jewell as well. First we have Cerro San Valentin barely touching the 4200 mts, in the middle of the Northern Patagonia Ice Cap, a mountain that holds a lot of bad weather for most of the […] Guest Author | June 10, 2015 0 Comments
Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA Alpine Conditions Report: Happy almost summer, as it may be. Certainly isn’t acting like summer. But 2015 is a year for weather extremes. After the biggest drought year ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada, somehow May was the wettest ever recorded in Bishop. The forecast is for more of the same lingering low pressure, with another 1+” of H2O projected over the next week with thunderstorms. The high country is currently in alpine form. Snow in couloirs ranges from styrofoam neve to transitional […] Conditions Report Guest Author | June 8, 2015 3 Comments
VIDEO: Epic 12-Day, 43-Mile Trip in Big Mountains of Las Lenas, Argentina Snow conditions were really good to go deep last spring down here in the Cordillera de los Andes. By the middle of september, when Las Leñas sadly shut down, we decided to put together the old and too used camping stuff, food, sun screen, tunes,rolling papers, skins, chaspolas (snowshoes), crampons, ice axe, headlamps and batteries to hit this sweet spot. Backpacks closely weight 50 kilos at the moment of leaving home. […] Guest Author | June 5, 2015 0 Comments
Mt. Shasta, CA Conditions Report: May 27th, 2015 Climbing season on Mt. Shasta just went into high gear. With a festive holiday and near perfect snow and weather, mountaineers who made the journey to Northern California were rewarded with Mt. Shasta in ideal late spring conditions. The mountain reveived new snow last week and with an improving weather window, the conditions in the alpine zone were beautiful. A reliable boot pack facilitated the climbing and the refreshed snow surface made for epic glissading and skiing on all aspects. […] Guest Author | May 28, 2015 2 Comments
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