Big mountain skiing is elusive.  There is no other way to look at it.  I recently returned from Alaska where I attempted to ski the South Face of Denali with my friend Dan Corn.  Our attempt was just that, an attempt.
The beauty of big mountain skiing is that even if you cannot ski your objective [...]

In early June, Wrights Air landed photographer Matt Hage and I on a gravel bar along the Hulahula River, just down from Katak Creek. This would be our base camp for the next ten days. We had come to ski from the summit of Mount Chamberlin, the highest peak in the Brooks Range at 9,020 [...]

Once again the Wrangell mountains live up to their reputation as big complex mountains with mazes of undulating seracs and crevasses, topped by a healthy dose of  the weird Wrangell snowpack. In  April and May the weather pattern in the Wrangell’s was clear, cold and windy.
After waiting for the wind to calm down, Paul Clause [...]