Pissing Off Piste: Taking Care of Business in the Backcountry Imagine this – you’re having the best backcountry ski tour of your life. The temperatures are mild, the avalanche forecast low, you’ve just made a great time on the skin track and are preparing for your descent of an untouched beautiful line. But then, nature calls. Your brain starts to race as you wonder if you can hold it until […] Backcountry Katy McClintic | December 13, 2023 1 Comment
Trip Report: Summer at Schweitzer Mountain, ID – Stoke Lives On The chair whooshed its familiar sound as we were whisked away from the Great Escape Quad chair lift base at Schweitzer Mountain in Sandpoint, Idaho. I sighed with relief as I took in summer at Schweitzer from a unique vantage point. Although there was no snow on the ground, feeling the air under my feet and looking back at the […] Trip Report Katy McClintic | July 27, 2021 2 Comments
42,950 Vertical Feet in 5 Days on Washington’s 5 Volcanoes Washington state, nestled at the tip of the Pacific Northwest, is home to five active volcanoes. Mount Baker and Glacier Peak hold court in the Northern half of the state. Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams form a triangle of volcanoes in the South. Four out of the five peaks stand at over 10,000ft. While many people aim […] Industry News Katy McClintic | July 12, 2021 0 Comments
Climbing Mt. Rainier, WA, to Help Sherpa Families in Nepal Three years ago, I attended a presentation on Leadership in the Mountains, led by Melissa Arnot. Melissa didn’t look much different from the rest of us dressed in business casual attire with a small athletic frame and a warm demeanor. It is strange when you meet your heroes, and you realize that they are just people too. Still, Melissa is one […] Katy McClintic | July 9, 2021 0 Comments
The 9 Richest Cities in Colorado: P.S. They’re Not Ski Towns If someone asked you where the richest cities in Colorado were, you would probably shout out names like Vail, Aspen, or Steamboat Springs. The skiing community associates high-end resort names like these with luxury skiing shopping outlets, five-star restaurants, and high-quality, trademarked, Champagne powder. In places where the streets seem tinged with gold, how could you not think they are […] Brains Katy McClintic | July 2, 2021 5 Comments
Work Life Balance: Corporate Jobs and Powder Dreams Most people are familiar with the popular Instagram account Jerry of the Day. The movement has become so popular that Jerry has been coined and iconized in the skiing community as an almost satirical figure who exemplifies the rowdy, sometimes idiotic, and hacky mindset of a subculture in skiing. In addition, Jerry has become synonymous with a more positive version […] Laughs Katy McClintic | July 1, 2021 0 Comments
Pacific Northwest Heatwave Threatens Summer Skiing Updated Monday, June 28, 2021 at 8:27 PM PST. Breaking news: Timberline was fully closed on Monday, June 28, 2021 due to “snow surface conditions, wind and heat”, according to their Instagram and Conditions pages. Tomorrow, Tuesday June 29, the Palmer park will not be opened as the Parks crew needs to rebuild many of the features with the […] Weather Katy McClintic | June 28, 2021 0 Comments
Getting a Leg up on HAPE: How to Reduce Risk and Onset It was during the late spring of 2016 when I first learned about HAPE. I was daydreaming in a college lecture hall, thinking about two climbers who were attempting to summit Mt. Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen. I had been captivated by their story as they were using social media platforms like SnapChat and Instagram to capture their […] Climbing Katy McClintic | February 1, 2021 0 Comments
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