
It’s not backcountry skiing per se, but I have to plug the US Telemark Ski Team as they represent what “backcountry skiing” used to be…well sort…at least the free heel part. My wife, Jeannine, is a member of the ski team, although is admittedly having a more difficult time training this year, being in Seattle [...]
Jan 16, 2009 | Categories: Backcountry Ski News, Backcountry Ski Photos, Ski Touring Resources | Tags: how to telemark ski, telemark skiing, telemark skiing equipment, telemark skiing photos, us telemark ski team, what is telemark skiing | 2 Comments »

Snow is finally starting to fall here in the Pacific Northwest and soon enough we should all be enjoying some backcountry ski tours. For now I’ll take what I can get, even if it’s a couple ski photos from past trips.
This shot was snapped on a three-day ski tour to the Snow Peak hut in [...]
Dec 14, 2008 | Categories: Backcountry Ski Photos | Tags: adventure photography, backcountry, Backcountry Ski Photos, backcountry ski touring, backcountry skier, backcountry skiing, backcountry skiing photos, bc skiing, Cascades, cross country ski, images pictures, northwest, pacific nw, photographs images, pictures nature, pictures of skiing, ski adventure, ski photo, ski pics, ski tour, ski touring, skiing, skis, snow, sports photography, telemark ski, telemark skiing, the backcountry, Washington, winter | Leave A Comment »

It’s that bad. Dec 7th, 2008, and still no snow in the Washington Cascades. So what’s a backcountry skier to do? How about go for a trail run up Mt Si? Sounds like fun right? We’re getting desperate, but at least the 4,000 ft climb up Mount Si was under clear blue skies and afforded [...]
Dec 09, 2008 | Categories: Backcountry Ski Photos | Tags: backcountry, Backcountry Ski Photos, backcountry skier, backcountry skiing, backcountry skiing photos, Cascades, mount si, mt rainier photos, mt si, northwest, photographs images, pictures nature, pictures of skiing, seattle, ski photo, ski pics, ski tour, ski touring, skiing, telemark skiing, the backcountry, trail running, Washington, winter | 2 Comments »

Time is running out on holiday shopping. Which is kind of scary, because with Christmas only a couple weeks away, there still is barely any snow in them hills! I woke up this morning, as I do every day, looked out the window and the Olympic Mountains are bare bare bare. It will come they [...]
Dec 04, 2008 | Categories: Backcountry Ski News, Backcountry Ski Photos, Ski Touring Resources | Tags: backcountry, Backcountry Ski Photos, backcountry ski touring, backcountry skiing, backcountry skiing photos, bc skiing, british columbia, cross country ski, glacier national park, images pictures, mt rainier, mt rainier photos, nordic skiing, northwest, oregon, oregon cascades, oregon coast, oregon images, oregon photos, oregon pictures, oregon surfing, pacific nw, photographs images, pictures nature, pictures of oregon, pictures of skiing, polebridge montana, seattle, ski adventure, ski photo, ski pics, ski tour, ski touring, ski trips, skiing, skiing lodge, skis, snow, surf pics, telemark binding, telemark ski, telemark skiing, the backcountry, Washington, winter | Leave A Comment »

There a lot of folks here in the PNW who actually ski year-round. I’m not one of them. But I do love backcountry skiing and there really is nothing like that first ski tour of the year. Despite a pretty abysmal start to the winter, we were lucky to hit Mt Rainier on a very [...]
Nov 28, 2008 | Categories: Backcountry Ski Photos | Tags: backcountry, Backcountry Ski Photos, backcountry ski touring, backcountry skiing, backcountry skiing photos, images pictures, mt rainier, mt rainier photos, northwest, pacific nw, photographs images, pictures nature, pictures of skiing, seattle, ski adventure, ski photo, ski pics, ski tour, ski touring, ski trips, skiing, skis, snow, telemark ski, telemark skiing, the backcountry, Washington, winter | Leave A Comment »

I’ll be the first to say, out loud, that anyone still telemark skiing or ski touring on the ‘old’ telemark bindings are crazy. Although I’ve only been backcountry skiing on the Black Diamond O1s for about a season and half, it took all of two steps to realize, very quickly, that we pin heads were [...]
Nov 19, 2008 | Categories: Backcountry Ski News | Tags: backcountry, Backcountry Ski Photos, backcountry ski touring, backcountry skiing, rottefella ntn, ski touring, telemark binding, telemark ski, telemark skiing, the backcountry | Leave A Comment »