It was a fun couple of days out there, read more>>>
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 This year's logo, fitting that it's in Bronco colors. No doubt about it, Christy and I have had a lot of cool opportunities in the outdoors. Ever since arriving to Aspen, in 1994 for me and 2000 for Christy, we were always impressed by what we saw and heard people doing in the mountains around town. From that inspiration, we’ve built our own lives in a similar fashion, and in the process, have accumulated quite a range of experiences. Through it all, we’ve been careful to never take ourselves too seriously, and always stick to the belief that we’re really just a couple of people who, at our core, just love to get out and challenge ourselves. So it’s a great honor to have been selected, as a couple, to be this year’s King and Queen of Winterskol, Aspen’s 61-year old festival of winter (read more here). Considering the list of former honorees, ranging from pro-athletes and Olympians, to founding leaders and visionaries of Aspen, we are both immensely flattered. Aspen’s been really good to us both, read more>>>  Christy, finding the old facets skied like a big pile of granulated sugar. When Kir’s email came through asking if Christy and I would like to join her and Anda at her Chair Mountain cabin for the weekend, you could hardly describe the thought process as a decision– I knew instantly we were going. Having spent nearly every day of the past three weeks working/skiing the thin coverage of Aspen Mountain, I really wanted to getaway and go somewhere. And after our ski experience on Chair last spring (see post here), I also knew Christy would be game, even if the big snows that typically bury this area hadn’t yet arrived. It was a great weekend for all sorts of reasons– to finally see Penn and Kir’s cabin, to log some hut quiet-time and skinning miles, and even for the skiing. The snow, though heavily faceted and only about a foot and a half to two feet deep, proved to be pretty good in parts, at least in a consistent, sugary sense. read more>>>  A photo from the start. [Christy here, again] It’s not a good sign when things look like this in January. Sure, we need more snow, but it could always be worse. Even with a not-so-great start to the season, we’re still pretty lucky that we can get out on a nice, long tour and enjoy the gorgeous scenery. With a random Monday off, and a need to unwind from the holidays, I took my cross-country ski set up out on the Express Creek to Richmond Ridge loop, and got in a little solo training for the upcoming Elk Mountains Grand Traverse. Since Ted had to work, he kindly offered to drop me off at the Express Creek trailhead up by Ashcroft, so that I could get out for this classic 20-mile loop back to town. read more>>>  It was far from a "White Christmas" around Aspen this year, but we did manage to find a little bit of powder up in the Pearl Pass area. (Christy here) For the second year in a row, we escaped the hustle-and-bustle of the holidays in Aspen to meet friends at the Green-Wilson hut for Christmas. Starting from Ashcroft on Christmas Eve afternoon, we skinned the five-plus miles to the hut under starry skies. Around 6:30pm we saw the lights of our cozy mountain cabin and were instantly greeted with holiday drinks and creative hors d’oeuvres. read more>>> In 2003, I was offered the chance to be a part of the first, live televised summit of Mount Everest. The catch– it was as a contestant on a reality television show. The series was called “Global Extremes – 4 Runners of Adventure” and in short, it took a whole bunch of contestants to exotic locales where competitions and eliminations trimmed the field to a group of five that ultimately went to Everest. It was a weekly series for about six months (20+ episodes) on the now-defunct Outdoor Life Network, and a condensed version aired on ABC as well. I recently found the five ABC episodes on a DVD, and decided to upload them here. The final episode from Mount Everest is embedded below.
I have to confess that I still haven’t watched the shows in their entirety myself, but for those that are curious and can temper reality TV, I’ve uploaded the five-part series to a drop-down menu (ted mahon) at the top of the blog, and the 1st episode, from Moab and Aspen, does a pretty good job at explaining what it’s all about. Apologies in advance for shoddy quality of the VHS-era video, the audio won’t line up correctly giving it a Kung-Fu like dubbed effect. If it’s loading slow, you can see them on YouTube here. |
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