Have a little faith…
Although not deeply religious, I would consider myself a deep believer in the power of faith… my father would tell me growing up that I could do anything as long as I put my mind to it, and to a large degree, I have to say… he was right. I will admit, [...]

This afternoon Loki and I headed up Grouse and over to Twin Peaks. With the warmer weather, the snow is melting fast! Seems like the hardest part of my hike today was actually just getting across the now swollen Ward Creek which is gushing like a full on river!
The corn seems to be setting up [...]

Squaw Valley and the entire Freeskiing community suffers a devastating loss as news of 29 year old Pro Freeskier Arne Backstrom’s death begins to spread. Early reports state that Arne passed away yesterday after a big mountain skiing accident in the Pisco Peak region of Peru, South America.
Although the Backstrom name has been ingrained in [...]

No, that wasn’t a typo in the title… with the most recent late May storms, June is shaping up to be a great month for backcountry skiing. In fact many locals have been debating that there might actually be more snow as of June 1 in the higher elevations than there was a month or [...]

As of Jan 2010, comScore released a report stating that 43,000,000 smartphone users (19%) exist amongst a sea of 234 million mobile subscribers – only 1 in 5 phones in use are smartphones, but they are on the rise… 18% increase in smartphone users from the previous quarter. That is about 7.75 million new smartphone [...]