On Powder Days in Alaska and British Columbia
Last year, I was lucky enough to have a slew of great ski trips. The fruit of two of those journeys appeared in magazines over the last month. My trip to test out a brand-new heli-skiing operation, Bearpaw, in northern British Columbia, appears in Skiing magazine’s 2013 Gear Guide. We logged over 50,000 vertical feet in a tenure of 1.2 million acres in two days. My legs were mush, and I couldn’t have been happier about it. In this month’s Backcountry magazine, I write about a yacht-accessed backcountry ski trip in Prince William Sound, a hard-to-access bastion of incredible peaks and monster snows. It was gorgeous and unique and unforgettable. I feel very lucky, as always.