Bill, Sue and I met in Frisco on a snowy day-after-Christmas morning. The roads were snow covered and slick in spots and we didn’t exceed 40 mph on the drive to Leadville. Luckily, we didn’t have any problems reaching the Sugarloaf dam of Turquoise Lake and met Craig waiting for us.
The four of [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Skinner Hut
Posted in skiing, tagged 10th Mountain Huts, hut trip, ski tour, Skinner Hut on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Boreas Pass Road
Posted in skiing, tagged Boreas Pass Road, cross country skiing on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sunday continued to be much nicer than Saturday so I decided to head out for a short cross country ski jaunt on Boreas Pass Road.
Following an old railroad grade the road is like a an urban rail-trail: filled with lots of people out for a Sunday stroll. People are walking dogs, trying out snowshoes, [...]
Skinning Breckenridge
Posted in skiing, tagged Breckenridge, skiing, skinning on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a lazy Saturday – for which I blame a friend and the Banff book awards for recommending a good book, and the weather (single digit highs, windy, cloudy), I decided to redeem myself with a pre-dawn start to my Sunday.
At 6am I walked to the base of Breckenridge’s Peak 9 lifts and started skinning [...]
Forest Lakes ski tour
Posted in skiing, tagged East Portal, Forest Lakes, ski touring on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill, Gary and I carpooled out to East Portal, a popular backcountry skiing and snowshoeing trailhead for the James Peak Wilderness. Overnight we’d gotten 6+ inches of new snow around town and the temperature had plummeted. At the trailhead the wind was blowing and we quickly geared up and dashed for the safety [...]
Little Scraggy Peak
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking, Little Scraggy Peak on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was a little early for our meeting time at The Fort near Morrison. So occupied myself with taking photos of the full moon I hardly saw on last night’s Full Moon Ski Tour while waiting for Dwight.
From the trailhead we started south through the woods with a light snow cover.
As we got further [...]
Full Moon Ski Tour
Posted in skiing, tagged Bakerville to Loveland Trail, Colorado Mountain Club, full moon, ski touring on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Four of us were hoping for clear skies tonight and the conditions looked good as we left Golden. We drove up into the mountains and saw the moon peek out over the hills before we entered the clouds and found new snow falling.
At the trailhead we geared up inside heated cars before rushing out [...]
Tecumseh Marathon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ham radio, Hoosier Hikers Council, Tecumseh Marathon, trail sweep on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite day of the year isn’t my birthday, Christmas, the Spring equinox or any other normal holiday. No, my favorite day of the year is the first Saturday of December when the Tecumseh Marathon is held.
The race is in its 6th year and every year I’ve been there to serve as race sweep. [...]
Bloomington Hikers
Posted in hiking, tagged Bloomington Hikers, Blue Diamond Trail, Deam Wilderness, hiking, Ice Flower on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently heard that I was approved to lead trips for the Colorado Mountain Club, so it was with some irony that since that announcement my first hikes were with the Bloomington Hikers. For the last several years I’ve lead a Thanksgiving morning hike around Yellowwood Lake, and I was able to keep the [...]
Kalamazoo and Chicago Too
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bell's Brewery, Chicago, Kalamazoo on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My brother Grant and I rolled out of Denver about 1pm on a Thursday with a destination of Chicago, to visit the remaining brother. We’d only made it about 40 miles when my front drivers-side tire blew apart. Thankfully I didn’t loose control of the vehicle and we were able to pull over [...]
