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 trucks, a sliver’s [...]
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