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New Tiger 800XC finally unveiled…

Been waiting a few years for the rumors to be true, and they are better than I imagined. Time to start saving pennies, check it out… Can’t wait to demo one

And thats a wrap…

Well this weekend brought my 09-10 avalanche teaching season to an end.  It’s been a long year but as always, very rewarding and fun.  This last Level II was awesome, good snow/weather conditions for a course – the kind you rarely find in the Wasatch in March – normally the snow is so boring this [… Read More]

Avalanche viewing

What a week!!  60″ of snow out of this storm onto a weak and fragile snowpack.  The avalanches have been far trickier than I anticipated and there have been way too many close calls and one fatality in Utah since it all began last week.  I got the chance to do some fly overs with [… Read More]

Getting ready for winter part 1 – checking your transceiver

Despite the awesome weather of the last week, I have finally accepted that winter is eminent and I should start doing a little prep work.  The first thing I did yesterday was dump all of my gear out of my three (rescue, teaching, work) packs and make sure the rodents hadn’t had too much fun [… Read More]