Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
Participated in the Tour of Fairbanks last weekend entering two of the five stages. The Prologue Hill Climb up the Parks Highway for six miles was held under pouring rain and I clocked 34 minutes on 4% grade. Then I succeeded in my goal of averaging 20mph over 20 miles for the first time on a rolly Steese Highway Time […]
Read moreCongrats to the five Valdez triathletes…Bonnie, Karen, Jennifer, Cecelia and Tabitha (pictured below) for their efforts last weekend at the Gold Nugget Triathlon in Anchorage!
Read moreTransitioning to a summer full of human-powered activities from road cycling to triathlons, day hikes and backbacking in Alaska. This weekend has 5 Valdez women, including Tabitha, in the Gold Nugget Triathlon in Anchorage and I’ll have a report up on Sunday. Good luck gals! Fortunate enough today to capture some pretty dramatic video after I climbed the hillside to […]
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Read moreOk….I got this call from some high tech firm in the USA about tele bindings. After agreeing to future testing in Alaska, I was flown by jet last week to somewhere warm and ushered into a series of metal buildings for intros and diagrams. They had some time on their hands and invited me into the latest project. The amazing […]
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Read moreI avoid politics on my Home Page like the plague. But not today. Not today of all days. I’m not sure if anyone gets it. I drive through Thompson Pass and check out dozens of mechanized skiers who are burning fuel as if there had never been an oil spill that devastated this region. Back then global warming wasn’t even […]
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