By Michael on April 9, 2010
Good thing the Orlter is my favorite ski tour of all time, because I had not quite three days at home before I had to trek back to Sulden, Italy for another one. Sulden is in the Sud Tyrol part of Italy where they speak German and where Reinhold Messner is from. And Sulden has one of […]
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By Michael on March 28, 2010
After our Zermatt trip finished up, Chris and I hopped in the car (actually since Zermatt is a car free town–NOT, more later–we took the train to Taesch where the car was parked), then drove over Simplon Pass to Italy and up to Sulden, Italy to start the Ortler ski tour. The Ortler ski tour […]
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By Michael on March 20, 2010
NASTC or North American Ski Training Center Chris Fellows organization. He started in a while back in order to make high level ski instruction available to any skier throughtout the winter and quickly expanded from his base at Lake Tahoe to add destinations around the world. His plan was to get the cream of the crop […]
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By Michael on March 10, 2010
Joe Malone brought a crew out to Chamonix this year from Portland, Maine. All of them ski hard at Saddleback and Sugarloaf and have a penchant for the backcountry. Chamonix was the perfect Alps launching ground for their 10 day trip. We had a hard charging week full of off piste, ski touring, glacier skiing […]
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By Michael on January 18, 2010
On the second to the last day of my Mallorca climbing trip I strained my knee on some steeply undercut, overhanging sea cliffs. The diagnosis was a small meniscous tear that I finally decided to have surgically repaired in mid january. The surgery went well and I was back to work the 6 weeks later.
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