Field Tested: Lowepro Flipside Sport 20L Camera Pack
Lowepro has sent us a few packs to test drive this winter. Since most of work over the past few months has involved skiing or climbing, we’ve been spending more time with those bags that are better suited to these sports. The Flipside Sport was originally slated for our month-long ski trip to Japan at [...]
Alaska Ski Traverse for Black Diamond
Last winter was one of the best ever seen in Southcentral Alaska, with record snow fall and snow stability that was downright stubborn. And it kept it up well into the spring. Come April we were getting ready to put the season to bed after months of shooting some amazing ski adventures around AK. Then [...]
Viva Alaska!
We’re wrapping up a mega tour of the Southwest and ready to get back home. Southcentral Alaska is full on winter now. We have the whole month of December at home and are looking forward to getting some midday session in the Chugach right behind our house. Or day trips to the Kenai Mountains. Maybe [...]
Talkeetna Mountain Snowbirds
Earlier this spring we headed out into the Talkeetna Mountains to do some magazine work with local telemark skier Corky Still. The granite spires had recently gotten a fresh coat and the snowpack proved super stable. Our crew skied into the AAC’s Snowbird Hut to find it already at double capacity. Whoa! Folks happily made [...]
Ski to the Sea Alaska’s Prince William Sound
It’s been a good winter up here in AK. Maybe that’s a bit too understated; it’s been a absolutely fabulous winter! The storm cycle has been refreshing our mountains 40-inches at a time and record low temps have been keeping the snow nice an light. Two months ago we returned home from [...]
Rippin’ Chicks for SheJumps
This winter we’ve been doing pro bono work for SheJumps, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit that strives to encourage more women to get out there and do it. They organize the Get the Girls Out ski days and we’ve shot a couple of their nation-wide events at our home mountain Alyeska Resort. It’s all about [...]
Valdez Ice Climbing
Not gonna’ lie: it was hard to put the skis away for a week and commit to an ice climbing shoot in Valdez. Not just for fear of lost powder days. Alaska has so much snow this winter that even the giant frozen waterfalls of Keystone Canyon were nearly buried. If anyone has ever considered [...]