awesome photos. definitely miss AK!

great posts! Woods, I first saw your photos nearly 4 yrs ago and was inspired to go skiing in Switzerland. We finally booked a trip to Switzerland for end of march for 2 wks. I managed to talk my wife into going to Zurich and St. Moritz. I had to promise her a deluxe experience otherwise she wouldn...

yeah. we are serious when huts and planes are involved.

X-skins and their limits? Man, I found them yesterday and got my butt kicked in a backcountry race. Even 58mm Xskins are still just kicker skins. If the route calls for a climbing skin, they are NOT climbing skins. Not that they can't climb, but they don't climb particularly well. I had been traini...

Lassen is a great trip, but you'll need to be much earlier than june in all likelihood. Last year early April was the beginning of the end of the snow, but CA got very little after a big december, so it was on the odd side. I'd say you're best off targeting late april/early may, but you're going to...

Don't wait til June. Late April/Early May is the best corn usually, and the snowpack is generally stable by then. I have not been to the top on skis but have circumnavigated the mountain on skis. I've come in from the north and the south to Lake Helen area. From the north, we started at Manzanita L...

You guys still around?? 8-) I would like to ski Mt. Lassen, California this sunmer. I want to go when the snow poses no avalanche danger. Probably in mid-late June? maybe before the road from the campground to the trailhead opens but not too early so I am not postholing through 4ft of rotten snow or...

Hi everyone, I would like to ski Mt. Lassen, California this sunmer. I want to go when the snow poses no avalanche danger. Probably in mid-late June? maybe before the road from the campground to the trailhead opens but not too early so I am not postholing through 4ft of rotten snow or worse, skiing ...

This is all great and helpful. While I'm not leaving out anyone's contribution it seems like the two main things I need to work on these turns are 1) take off the skins and 2) less slope angle. Getting these two environmental conditions will then help me work on the mechanics of the turn - somethin...

I watched a ton of videos for a while. several times per month for several yrs. especially on days I couldn't ski. I watched everything from Pro nordic races, telehiro, all those old film classics, basic nordic and telemark instruction videos, and whatever else was available online. Its been a 7 yea...