Mt.Niceness-Danny Walton and Zach Crist - Boulder Mountains,ID
Spring Peak Skiing in the Boulder Mountains-Idaho
This past weekend Zach Crist and I went out to ski some peaks in our backyard of Idaho. First, was Galena Peak 11,153 ft in the Boulder Mountains. The wind was howling and the temps never warmed up as forecasted. We did get corn skiing a couple thousand feet lower down. Galena Peak is a nice 4500 foot climb and ski. The Galena area offers endless touring options up and down the pass.
Zach on the Galena Summit Ridge
the joys of spring skiing!
views from Galena Peak
Zach and our friend Caleb Baukol on the wind summit.
The next day we did the classic Silver Tour. This tour starts at the top of the Galena summit and traverses south pass Titus peak to Silver Peak 11,112 ft. At the trail head we ran into our friends Joe St. Onge and Kyle Coshow from Sun Valley Trekking who were heading the same way . The day proved to be one of those perfect spring days that we all crave. We had a blast harvesting the spring corn and ripping turns in such beautiful area.
Danny Walton
- Silver Peak Summit
perfect corn skiing!
refreshing river crossing before beers and flip flops...love spring!
Cheers,
Danny Walton
K2 Backside Team
K2 Tourenabende
Auch heuer finden wieder die K2 Tourenabende in Garmisch Partenkirchen statt! Jeden Dienstag und Donnerstag geht es vom Hausbergparkplatz auf die Drehmöser9, wo man sich mit einem Tourengeher Schmaus stärken kann, bevor man sich wieder auf die Abfahrt begibt.
Heuer gibt es 2 Routen, am Dienstag geht es vom Hausbergparkplatz über die Tonihütten Piste zr D9, oder für die die es gerne steiler haben alternativ direkt über die Horn Piste. Am Donnerstag dann zur Abwechslung über die Kochelbergpiste.
Die Tourenabende beginnen mit Öffnung der Talabfahrten im Hausberggebiet.
In Zusammenarbeit mit Sport Conrad besteht ausserdem die Möglichkeit die neuen K2 Tourenski zu testen. Gegen eine Gebühr von 5,- Euro können die Ski bis 19.00 Uhr abgeholt werden, die Leihgebühr wird bei Kauf eines beliebigen Sportartikels rückerstattet.
Backcountry Resources - Places & Guides
PLACES & GUIDES
Looking for guiding services to add new skills to your quiver or show you great backcountry skiing in a new area? From lightweight remote touring and mountaineering to mechanized backcountry powder shredding, our Guiding Services partners are the best in the business.
Guiding Services - North America
- American Mountain Guide Association
- Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
- Pro Guiding Service
- North Cascades Mountain Guides
- Sun Valley Trekking
- Rendezvous Backcountry Tours
- Adventures to the Edge
- Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH)
- Valdez Heli-Ski Guides
- Alaska Rendezvous Lodge/Heli-Ski Guides
- Monarch Mountain
- North Cascade Heli Skiing
- Silverton Mountain
- Mica Heliskiing
- Powder Cowboy Catskiing
- Red Mountain
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- Skiers Lodge La Grave
- Bureau des Guides de La Grave
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- Chamonix Mountain Guides
- Alpinschule Bietschhorn Ausserberg
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K2 is proud partner of SAAC
For us riding off-piste, whether on skis, teles or a snowboard was and still is probably the most important reason why we work in this industry. For sure we spend a lot of time in the office, and read more about riding powder than actually doing it ourselves. But once we get out we know why we love what we are doing.
But offering the tools for riding off-piste is only a small part of it. Besides offering a wide range of off-piste skis or introducing our NEW Backside series, which is focused mostly on the adventures skiin goutside the ski area boundaries - no matter if it is lift access freeriding down the backside, classic randonee skiing that´s just growing and growing, or full alpine mountaineering with some steep skiing to get down again - we are also focusing on the education of those who are looking for the ultimate thrill.
Our Backside blog is a growing library of links and information for anything that involves off-piste skiing, we have worldwide cooperations with mountain guides, freeride camps, avalanche education centers and have now also started a new cooperation with one of the leading avalanche education institutions in the German speaking markets:
Since 1998 SAAC has been educating riders about avalanches and dangers in the backcountry with the goal to offer anybody the knowledge and ability to judge and minimize the risk while enjoying the off-piste.
SAAC offers 2 different levels of camps - one 2-day basic camp which is FREE (so be quick signing up as spots are filling up fast...) and a so called SAACnd Step Camp over 3.5 or 5.5 days with a more detailed program s.a. weather and avalanche forecast knowledge, route planning, first aid, etc.
For more information, dates and locations of the 2009-2010 season check their website.
Chamonix Insider... for those who missed out on whatever.
Chamonix Insider...for those who are there but missed out on the sickest party/good weather window/best day ever/massive dump or just for all of us who are not there but wish we were, instead of sitting in the office dreaming about the sickest party/good weather window/best day ever/massive dump.
Chamonix Insider is a new blog and information platform from winter sports industry veteran, journalist, mountaineer, ski/telemark/snowboard-bum and now Chamonerd again Trey Cook, who over the past 12 years has been brewing up, dropping in, flaming out, landing hard, cowboyin’ up, topping out, throwin’ horns and basically having the “Best Day EVER!" over and over and over again in this little corner of paradise that´s called Chamonix.
So check it out, find out what´s going on in one of the sickest mountain spots in the world, and if you go there make sure to talk to Trey about your sickest party/good weather window/best day ever/massive dump so we all can get jealous about it.
Trey enjoying his former life as a journalist, him and me hiking the Shuksan arm at KampK2 2009 held at Mt.Baker. One of those days...
