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Busy Beavers

ted — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:39:52 +0000

It was a fun couple of days out there, and even though we didn’t win Wintersculpt 2012 last weekend, Christy declared “Barry, the ACES Mountaineering Beaver” to be, in her opinion, the unofficial People’s Choice Award.

One thing’s clear from the questions we fielded over the 48 hours, many people don’t know the [...]

Seize the Summit

ted — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:06:40 +0000

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 [...]

Express Creek to Richmond Ridge

ted — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:12:04 +0000

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 [...]

A Green (Wilson) Christmas

ted — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:44:32 +0000

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 [...]

Fast Women in Aspen

ted — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:04:23 +0000

Viktoria Rebensburg took the win here for Germany. Interesting to me was the fact that she was on Nordica skis, a brand rarely seen, on the World Cup podium. Click any photo to enlarge.

The fastest women skiers in the world descended on Aspen this past weekend for the 2011 Women’s World Cup [...]

Off to a good start

ted — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:08:00 +0000

What better way to kick off the season than to debut a new outfit. Looking good, Fry.

Our season has begun.

Not wanting to wait another month for the lifts start running here, Christy, Kathy, Joey, and I headed up to Montezuma Basin yesterday. It’s a haul to get up there, but when [...]

The Long Day

ted — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:33:11 +0000

Christy descends to Cooper Lake from East Maroon Pass, through flurrying snow and graupel.

Forty-one miles, 9,600 feet of gain, with a high point of 12,900 feet over three passes and four valleys– that counts as a pretty long day in my book. Our friend Tim always tells Christy and I we’re “masters [...]

The Aspen Backcountry Marathon

ted — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:01:57 +0000

The inaugural Aspen Backcountry Marathon was this past Saturday. Christy and I both took part in the fledgling event that saw 240 starters, a majority of which seemed to be from out of town, an impressive number considering it’s first year status.

Kudos to Aspen’s Special Events Department for getting this one off the [...]

The Queen Stage sequence

ted — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:35:01 +0000

And here they come with less than 1km to go. The leaders-- Tee Jay Van Garderen, Tom Danielson, Javier Acevedo, George Hincapie and Eduard Beltran, pictured here from right to left, finished in front.

In what was one of the coolest new events to come to Aspen, the second stage of the inaugural [...]

Len Shoemaker Ridge to Pyramid Traverse

ted — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:32:02 +0000

The massive ridge. With the start labeled, we first climbed south to Len Shoemaker Peak and then followed the ridge as it swung north, all the way to Pyramid. Click to enlarge.

Totally psyched and somewhat surprised to have actually pulled it off, Neal Beidleman and I sat on Pyramid’s narrow summit in [...]