Spending time in the mountains as a guide or outdoor professional offers a kind of perspective that is hard to find elsewhere. When you are not just moving through a landscape, but having to pay close attention to it, watching the subtle shifts in a glacier, noticing...

I’m finally home after three back-to-back avalanche courses, and the quiet feels earned. The past few weeks have been a blur of long drives, endless coffee, and a steady rotation of different snowpacks. I started with a ski patrol–specific Pro 1 at Palisades Tahoe,...

With the unseasonably mild winter we are experiencing here on Mt. Shasta, we have been fielding a fair number of calls from people inquiring about attempting the summit this season. Because of this, I thought it would be instructive to write a brief overview of what...