Opening 2021/2022
This year, I'd like to blog about my ski activities in the Wasatch and beyond. When I first moved to Utah and started backcountry skiing, I gathered a ton of information, knowledge, advice, and stoke from all of the long-form blogs that form a substantive legacy and history in this special range (tetonsandwasatch, Jason Dorais, Andy Dorais, Noah Howell, Jared Inouye, Patrick Fink, FitzRips, and others). Since then - the early 2010s or so - all ski documentation seems to have moved to Instagram, and often just IG Stories, which I don't think affords the same medium for thoughtfulness and expression as a blog. I'd like to try to recapture the excitement, wonder, and enjoyment that I felt reading everyone's blogs and maybe have a bit of fun doing it myself. Let me address one thing head-on: my skiing is probably not as pretty as others'; my fitness probably not as strong; my skill not as elevated; and my ambition not as great. I don't want there to be any mistake ...