One of the purposes of this web site, in addition to posting ski news, equipment reviews, tips, and ski conditions, was to create an online backcountry ski guidebook with route descriptions, pictures of routes and skiing, and detailed maps.

On March 4, I received several threatening, hateful emails from 3 Wolf Creek Pass locals. The reason for the email is that three or 4 locals (supposedly more but only 4 wrote email) are outraged that I had published backcountry ski route information on "their" personal ski area on the North side of Wolf Creek Pass. This article is my response.

Teton Conditions: Still cold and snowing. Best deep powder conditions of the season.

Just Do It!  

It's been snowing since February 10th, but in the last 3 days, it's been dumping. Today is was cold, deep, and untracked. Base is in great conditions and you can ski almost anywhere.

Bruce Trempers's Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain is an excellent book. I saw this book in a ski shop at the beginning of the season and thought, "I should read this book." But I'm cheap and somewhat lazy when it comes to learning about avalanches, and the thought of reading a technical book about avalanches and how to survive them made me think of root canal surgery. So I put the book down and bought something a lot more fun: new skis.

It's been a feast and famine season in the Tetons, with both weighing in equally. If you can get out WHENEVER the conditions are good, then you've probably had a pretty good season. But as everyone is saying, "It's not last year." The current conditions are really good. The snow skis better than it looks, and the mountain daytime temps are well below freezing.

SUMMIT COUNTY - The avalanche and snow science community lost one of its founding fathers this week, when Ed LaChapelle died of a heart attack while skiing powder at Monarch Mountain Thursday.

LaChapelle, who was 80, was skiing with a group that included his wife, Meg Hunt, Paula Mears, former Colorado Avalanche Information Center director Knox Williams and Art Mears, another Colorado-based avalanche expert.

My trusty old ski boots, Dynafit Tourlite All Terrain, started falling apart during x-mas week. Too bad because Chuck Bird, resident pedorthist at Neptune Mountaineering, had adjusted them over the years so I could walk in them all day with NO PAIN. Suddenly I was faced the daunting task of buying new ski boots. And because we were in a big snow cycle in the Tetons, taking days or weeks to choose a pair of boots was NOT an option. I needed new boots immediately.