On this page you can find updates about my skiing experiences as well as specific trip reports about areas or peaks I have skied. First, a little bit about my skiing up to this point: When I stopped playing soccer my junior year of college, I suddenly found myself with free time I had never had before. It was skiing that filled my time that first winter without soccer. My parents gifted me a season pass for Christmas, and along with a flexible class schedule and a willing friend to spend four days a week at the mountain I learned to ski. Between a few ski days that I could count on one hand leading up to that winter and a yearly excursion to the New Mexico mountains with my family I had spend relatively little time in the snow before that winter. Quickly, though, skiing became one of my favorite sports, and winter became a whole new joy I would have never known otherwise. My partner, Mark, is also an enthusiastic skier, and as I came into the sport we quickly became one another’s favorite ski partner! Now I am lucky to spend most days in the winter playing in the snow. I work as a ski instructor and enjoy the opportunity to backcountry and nordic ski in the beautiful areas in and around Leadville, Colorado.
Blog posts
Backcountry skiing
Winter Camping
- Podcast Release!
- A Spring Ski Traverse of the Colorado Trail
- Let’s go for a walk in the snow: Mark and I set out to ski (and hike) the Colorado Trail
- Sleeping in the Snow: Some More Experiences Learning to Winter Camp
- No one told me it would be cold here!
Ski Mountaineering
Ski Photos
More than any other sport, ski photos seem to really capture the feeling and beauty of what it is like to be out there. Mark and I love to take them of one another and we are lucky to have some friends who do too! Our friend and ski partner, Parker, is a particularly talented photographer and shares that gift with us when we go skiing together! Most of the best photos I post here are his!
