Last year I missed the Banff Film Festival’s World Tour, but did at least catch the Radical Reels presentation in Golden. So in redemption I attended two consecutive nights of films. Thursday, February 26th: The Red Helmet – 6 minutes. I’d seen this sort film before, but possibly online since I was struck by how [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Banff Film Festival
Posted in film, tagged Banff Film Festival World Tour, Crux, Dosage Volume V, If You're Not Falling, Journey to the Center, Mountain Town, Red Gold, Shikashika, Silent Snow, The Cable Car, The Fine Line, The Last Frontier- Papau New Guinea, The Red Helmet on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
White Ranch Park
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking, White Ranch Park on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I decided to visit a very close by park after work for a short (just shy of 7 miles) hike. White Ranch Park is part of the Jefferson County Open Space program and lies just north of Golden. I probably hadn’t visited it because no real mountains lie within its boundaries. I set off south [...]
Mount Woodson
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking, Mount Woodson on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before my flight back to Colorado Heidrun and I got out for one more hike. This time she took me to one of her local spots for a quick walk up the fire trail on Mount Woodson. Mount Woodson is known as a popular bouldering area, but today we only saw other hikers and a [...]
San Jacinto
Posted in hiking, tagged Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, San Jacinto Peak, snowshoeing on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We woke early and quickly broke camp in Joshua Tree by 6:30 am. We had an hour plus drive to just outside of Palm Springs were we hoped to pick up the first tram up San Jacinto Peak. On the way we noticed a huge lenticular cloud hanging over the peak and I hoped the [...]
HAMS Final Field Session
Posted in climbing, tagged Colorado Mountain Club, crevasse rescue, HAMS, High Altitude Mountaineering School, James Peak, St. Marys Glacier on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our HAMS (High Altitude Mountaineering School) group met at a gentle 8am to load sleds, packs, boots and more for the drive up to St. Mary’s Glacier. This would be our final field session for the HAMS school and the weekend would have two goals – practicing snow camping and having a final exam on [...]
Breckenridge to Frisco
Posted in skiing, tagged Peaks Trail, ski touring, skinning on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For Sunday’s exercise I decided to skin up the Breckenridge ski resort for the 3rd time this winter season. Starting at the base of Peak 9 I hoped I wouldn’t run into too many snow cats on my journey since I found my headlamp batteries were nearly dead. The full moon wasn’t much help since [...]
Lincoln Falls ice climbing
Posted in climbing, tagged Colorado Mountain Club, HAMS, High Altitude Mountaineering School, ice climbing, Lincoln Falls on February 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As part of the High Altitude Mountaineering School (HAMS) with the CMC we spent a day ice climbing at Lincoln Falls. For many of the students it would be their first time ice climbing. When we all met at the trailhead at Montgomery Reservoir we found another CMC HAMS group also destined for Lincoln Falls, [...]
Peaks Trail
Posted in skiing, tagged Peaks Trail, ski tour on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My Backcountry Ski Touring School had finished up last weekend, but one of the instructors invited a couple of us students along on a 14-year tradition of skiing the Peaks Trail on Super Bowl Sunday. The Peaks Trail runs 8+ miles from Breckenridge to Frisco and I’d hiked the trail last winter on snowshoes. I [...]
HAMS Field Day #2
Posted in climbing, tagged Colorado Mountain Club, expedition sleds, HAMS, High Altitude Mountaineering School, Saint Marys Glacier on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
During our first HAMS (High Altitude Mountaineering School) meeting we were issued modified plastic sleds. A few were already completely outfitted with runners, tie-down straps, brake straps and haul lines. The one I got only had a few cord loops tied around the edges and the rim was strengthened with some cut sections of garden [...]
