Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
Alaska Backcountry Skiing: Valdez and Thompson Pass is now available at Amazon as a Kindle eBook.. I made some minor updates to the Weather chapter to include hot links and updated some snow stats. Sorry it took so long. Enjoy.
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When I left Alaska, I thought I had lost my place as a witness documenting global warming. For nearly forty years I had watched and photographed some glaciers cascade into the ocean at alarming rates while others simply melted in place. Every year brought more extremes and records to the “Greatland”. Anomalies became patterns. Now I was in the mist […]
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Part One: Corrientes Fáciles (Easy Currents) San Blas Islands, Gunayala Region, Panama Expediciones Tropicales; February 29, 2020 – March 5, 2020. Day One – Within a nautical mile we were soaked with warm Caribbean spray as we departed the busy Port of Barsuggum, bouncing fast over two-foot white caps into a fresh wind. Glancing over my shoulder and opening my […]
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The Snowy Torrents – Avalanche Accidents in the United States 1996-2004 by Knox Williams and Spencer Logan might not make the New York Times Best Seller List, but it is still a priceless, technical compilation of avalanche incidents to add to the backcountry skier’s reading list. Despite the delays of publishing and distributing this large project, I’m glad the authors […]
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With April just around the canyon its worth noting that March was on record to be the driest in history til a few days ago. Three weeks of below average temperatures and persistent, gusty northerlies all set by a “Bora” high along the Alaska/Canada Arctic coast. It morphed and moved and now has finally eroded. March 2017 will probably be […]
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Perusing over the NWS statistics today and came up with this. Leading the stats is the 10-year averages for snowfall during the past 40 years showing a rather stark downward trend for the month and some indication of our future climate Also, three of the five warmest Marches have occurred in the past 15 years. The last time we had […]
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