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13-22 April, Chamonix Off Piste with Beth, Will, and Max Mondzac

Beth and Will came out from Seattle with their 13 year old son, Max. Will was a real trooper because he had broken his leg (tibial plateau) earlier in the season and was only coming in support. So Beth, Max and I hit the slopes each day, with one rest day in the middle. We […]

2-8 April 2010 Ortler Ski Tour with Lisa Beaudreau and Matthew Hyde

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 […]

21-27 March 2010 Ortler Ski Tour w/ NASTC

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 […]

14-19 March NASTC Zermatt Off-Piste

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 […]

Chamonix and Verbier Off Piste, Ski Touring and Heliskiing w/ Joe Malone, Bruce, James, Michael and Doug, 1-10 March 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 […]