Recent content by ShiftyRider

I telemark at Baldy and Mammoth most of my daze, tho I'm way better on a snowboard. I remember before I ever slid on snow, watching Franz Klammer and immediately knowing a wanted to be an alpine skier. Telemark on the other hand could never be done justice on video, you just gotta learn it then...

Chris, I'ma telemark today Saturday at Baldy look for the Buffalo Plaid/Kinco Style and introduce yourself please. Here's my AR Emoji...

Oops, stumbled on a real old shot while looking for something else. After a big January storm we checked with patrol then hiked the backbone from the top of Chair 4 to the obvious ridge that provides a higher entry into Harwood's main south gully (upper right in my Mar 15 message's vidcap). The...

For Baldy I recommend you bring your own food, their kitchen tends to be inexplicably slow. Also last week they switched to Courtesy Hour (opening an hour later and) closing at 5:15.

...penguin's tryin to be like ShiftyRider sporting black boots... "The first penguin pioneers that settled Africa millions of years ago all went extinct." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/penguins-colonized-africa-thrice/

My memory is shot, there's often willow-like trees down low Holcumac near where the gulley/creek forms that can be nearly impassable. Here's a video google found that shows a way...

Mount Harwood...

At the bottom it's back to not wearing your skis for the Chair 1 ride.

Well on Sunday I saw a pinwheel 7-feet-tall...

Above, we still haven't reached the dirt road (same that Chair 1 crosses). Here's Adawg just below the dirt road... ...swervin like George Jones...

Debris, prolly originated a bit above top of 4, 7 daze ago...

Two miles from the Pacific, 61 minutes to MBYC :p

June and July, if you know how to pressure instead of edge...