a Steep Classic

Illness be damned. Last Wednesday was time to go to work. I joined some old friends and new ones to document a guided ski mountaineering trip into Death Canyon for Exum Mountain Guides. I finally got a crack at the Apocalypse Coulior, a steep classic with rappels, ice bulges and even a bit of soft [...]

One Shot: Drifting

Burly winds blow drifts across the Elk Refuge road.

Jackson Lake Moonlight

One Shot: The Writing is on the Wall

Shoshoni, Wyoming. Unknown graffiti artist.

The Closing Window (a 24-hour moving meditation across Yellowstone)

Yellowstone National Park closed its south, east and west gates this morning for the season. I made my annual closing weekend pilgrimage from Jackson and was greeted with deserted roads, low temps around zero, and a spectrum of light ranging from brilliant to brooding. The amusement park infrastructure was shut for the season and the [...]

One Shot: Small Plane in a Big Storm

The arched string of lights is a small turbo prop airplane turning away from a charged, evening storm in Jackson, Wyoming. Bitter cold mornings here in the Hole hint that a different kind of storm is coming soon and the Jackson faithful are paying homage to a trusty idol: La Niña.

Part of the Solution

Rather than talk about how to make Jackson more sustainable and submit to the suburban life of south park, where we live, my wife Bille and I decided to make some changes in our own lives, believing that collective change through individual responsibility is the only way we are going to get anywhere. We may [...]

Cowboys Saving Space

As you drive south out of Jackson, Wyoming, civilization stops, if only briefly. To the east, nearly eighty miles of mountain wilderness meet the edge of the highway. Looking out the car window to the west, a patchwork of lush green pasture stretches to distant cottonwoods, over which aspen groves and pine covered hills roll [...]