Archives for January 2007

Alpinist 19 has a written account from Charlie Fowler of a gnarly fall he took from the North Chimney on the Diamond in 1984. He walked away from that incident unscathed, but died in December along with Christine Boskoff during a discovery expedition in China. Fowler’s body was recovered in avalanche debris. Boskoff’s remains are […]

Finishing times for the first two COSMIC races are posted at www.cosmicski.com. The gap between the winners and the followers was larger in the second race at Snowmass, but the initial results show that this will be an increasingly competitive series … Sunlight results – click here Snowmass results – click here

Lou Dawson over at Wild Snow picks up on the “amazing lightweight gear” and becomes a believer.  Thanks Lou, it was a pleasure hosting you. One of the crew from BC.Com, whom we were visiting with at the time, almost skipped a heartbeat upon your arrival and was moved to share his most recent trip […]

The 2007 Piolet d’Or will be awarded on January 26, 2007 in Grenoble, France. The nominees are: Kazakhs Denis Urubko and Sergey Samoilov, for a new route opened in alpine style on Manaslu’s northeast face Slovenian Pavle Kozjek, for leading a new route on Cho Oyu, and for summitting images of the Nangpa La Killings […]

Bryan Wickenhauser has made the podium in both COSMIC ski-mountaineering races to date. Here’s what he had to say to the open-ended question: COSMIC is new to Colorado and the sport of competitive ski-mountaineering is still embryonic nationwide. Who should be competing in these races and why? A: The sport of ski mountaineering is fairly […]

Inspiring visuals, totally Euro sound … LINK

Ethan Passant (Crested Butte) and Karen Kingsley (Silverton) are crushing the race divisions with decisive victories in the first two COSMIC races. Crested Butte athletes Bryan Wickenhauser and Jari Kirkland have also climbed the podium in the first two races. Wickenhauser came in 2nd place just 24 seconds behind Passant in the first race at […]

Aspen-native Chris Davenport has succeeded in his quest to ski all 54 Colorado 14ers in the span of one year. Read the report here

Race organizers can only hope that front range media coverage will lead to big turnouts at the Loveland and Arapahoe Basin races … View the article here

The new Colorado ski-mountaineering race series is underway. REGISTER HERE.