Category Archives: wyoming
Scrubfest 2011 – Cowboy Pow
Written on February 28, 2011 at 16:23, by samh
A group of individuals loosely-related via splitboard.com have been getting together atop Wyoming’s Togwotee Pass for the past half-dozen years or so to delve their splitboards into the deep, Wyoming “Cowboy Pow” along the continental divide at the pass as well as on the steep flanks of the impressive Teton Range in Grand Teton NationalContinue Reading
The Art of Glissading
Written on February 24, 2011 at 11:22, by samh
Wikipedia defines glissading as the “..voluntary act of descending a steep slope of snow in a controlled manner either for the sheer thrill of the ride or to bypass tedious scree.” During the summer of 2009 I co-guided a course in ultralight backpacking for the Backpacking Light Wilderness Trekking School alongside Andrew Skurka and GlenContinue Reading
Backpacking Light – Wilderness Trekking School – WS1-LWB 2010
Written on August 6, 2010 at 21:29, by samh
Over a weekend in late July and early August Chris Wallace and I had the opportunity to instruct a group of excited students in the ways and (dare I say) art of ultralight backpacking. We were working on behalf of the Backpacking Light Wilderness Trekking School and operated a three day course out of JacksonContinue Reading