Monarch’s extreme snowcat tours of Colorado’s Great Divide are heaven for snow carnivores – Above me on the mountain steeps, I could hear the guides call to each other as they swept through the trees making sure there were no stragglers. “Clear… Clear.” Clear, my butt. I’m upside down in this hole, wedged between a Read More
Instant Karma: The Heart And Soul Of A Ski Bum
When everybody else is shoveled-out, this skier goes up again and again… and again | Excerpts from his book by Wayne Sheldrake / Just forty minutes from my home, Wolf Creek typically opened in October, earlier than any other ski area within 150 miles. Since I’m not a season ticket holder, this is a torturous Read More
Into The Squall – Facing the Blizzard at Wolf Creek
Lost in bottomless powder, the only way to survive a storm like this is to keep skiing – I’d always thought the massive winter storms that slammed Wolf Creek collected in Canada and then funneled down the continent. Then someone told me, no, the really big systems get knocked up somewhere over Manchuria, gestate as Read More