Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
I’ve known Matt Obermiller for over 20 years. He escaped the crowds of the Wasatch where he learned and honed his BC ski skills, mountain ethos and then found his part of Alaska in the Chugach. He helped WESC photographers get the best shots. He later settled about 60 miles north of Valdez in the Tiekel Valley. He lives just off the […]
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Skied a variety of line on the North Shore of Big Odessey, except this one. Typically rock laden and rough, today it was stocked full of snow with hardly a stone. Some breeze textured powder with small, isolated patches of soft slab made for good, steep skiing. Some “ruts”. In the photo you can see where I descend then long […]
Read moreOne of joys and advantages with free-heel bindings is telemark skiing Thompson Pass powder. As skis have got fatter, alpine turns have been worked in to my skiing and so I like to mix it up. The “mono-mark” is a type of telemark turn that uses only one ski in the lead to make the turn. By gently rocking the […]
Read moreToo many telemarkers. Too much fun! (video below) [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/155636108[/vimeo]
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It’s a 1.5 minute video with a foursome of locals. See below, plus this ancient BW of Catchers Mitt all puffed out in powder from my files. [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/152371511[/vimeo]
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Yep, used to use dial-up with one of the first small lap-top Apples and a program called AppleWorks back in the day at the Chalet. Today it’s a pocket camera with HD video, edited, uploaded to the Net and to the ski world for near daily reports on your laptops or palm-sized phone. It’s been a passion to not only […]
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A short one minute video shot today.. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/145689056[/vimeo]
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