Yesterday was a classic spring day in California’s Sierra Nevada. Even though it was my countless day skiing in conditions like this, I still marvel at these amazing days of warmth, abundant corn snow, and the fact that here one can drop to the car from a wintry landscape and slip on shorts and flip [...]
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Skiing California Sierra Nevada Fourteeners
Skiing the Eastern Sierra Nevada Fourteeners by David Page with photos courtesy Christian Pondella This article first appeared in EastSide Magazine From a distance it looked perfect. Perfectly epic. But from the summit, with skis on, looking down at an enormous chockstone wedged into the trap door of a fifty-five degree couloir, nine thousand vertical feet above the [...]
Backcountry Ski Conditions | Sierra Nevada
Yes, we have pretty much dropped off the radar for the last 10 days. The reason is obvious, winter arrived cold and dry. Here in the Sierra we have had some of the best snow I have ever seen in California and as luck would have it, the fluff has stuck around in the backcountry. [...]
Climbing All California 14er | Part 3
Mt. Tyndall With our new found enthusiasm for trail running, Mt. Tyndall was the perfect testing ground for a truly big day. While the peak does have a steep northeast face with some real climbing, all the routes were closed for Bighorn Sheep grazing. This left the long, slabby northwest face as the alternative. But [...]
Climbing All California 14er | Part 2
Climbing California 14ers With seven 14ers down and seven to go, we had options; rock climbing in the Whitney group or try one of the long car to car endeavors. We decided to do the Sierra’s southernmost 14er, Mt. Langley, deal with the huge distance to and from, and then go to Whitney. And for [...]
Climbing California 14,000 Foot Peaks
I found this story archived in our computer and have decided to publish it (in three parts) to DolomiteSport along with the photos. I hope it serves as inspiration to reader’s for 2010 summer plans. It was great fun to read this text and see how both our outlook and lives have changed. After the [...]
