by katie.d | Jul 21, 2014 | blog, field journal
Colorado Mountain College Snow-O 2nd Weekend The next week the weather changed dramatically. It was much warmer in the high 20s at night and probably in the high 40’s during the day. To make things worse there was alternatively hot sun than wet snow falling on...
by katie.d | Jul 21, 2014 | blog, field journal
Colorado Mountain College Snow Orientation Part 2 Sorry for the late post, its damned past summer now and this post is about skiing. How I miss the snow. Our Instructor is an experienced ski mountaineer, Her name is Vic Kerr she is small statured Scot. Serious...
by katie.d | Jul 16, 2014 | blog, field journal
Just wanted to stop in and say HI
by katie.d | May 5, 2014 | boots, crampons, field journal, ice climbing, review
Getting on Ice with the Zamberlan Expert Ibex GTX RR The name and model number are a bit of a mouthful. I had been ordering in these mountain hunting boots one at a time, due to cost, and the Ibex was chosen last. I own Meindl and Kenetrek goods of...
by katie.d | May 4, 2014 | boots, crampons, field journal, ice climbing, Meindl
Kenetrek Mountain Guide 400 I’ve been a fan of the Kenetrek company for a while when years back I went and looked for a sturdy, yet low key winter backpacking boot. What I found was the the Kenetrek Grizzly. A few hundred miles later the boots had holes in them...
