At the intersection of midwestern skiing and bad decisions. Probably NSFW.

The pot roast breakfast skillet is the best excess hopslam absorption mechanism ever.

My camping plans were thwarted by work, but I managed to sneak out Saturday. T-$ found me around noon. Had great fun skiing the slackcountry around the radio tower. Conditions back there were awesome. Also almost completely untouched. Heck, I broke trail to the west side of the tower shortly before ...

One of my fondest memories is twisting down a NARROW AF hiking trail down to Mirror Lake on a seemingly endless right turn in hip deep powder, just dipping in and the coefficient of friction equalizing perfectly (through little to no action or skiing skill on my part). Just...woooooooooosh....while...

PM sent. Don't want anybody finding my secret stash of primo firewood for the weekend.

Porkies survived the last round of warm temps. Just need a couple inches of fresh snow and it should be in awesome shape for telefest. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4673/39953257691_0c1c58a254_c.jpg Crosscut cabin is open now too! https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4749/39055165885_3f7759f753_c.jpg If yo...

Oh, hai. Finishing up my 3rd on call weekend in a row so nothing exciting to report. It snowed Then it melted. Then it snowed again. Now it's melting again. I think it's going to snow again. Heading to the porkies next weekend to scout a telefest campsite. I think Bell's Hopslam is available now, so...

I recall one powder day at the local hill a few years back when a friend stopped at the top of hill, and removed a ski to adjust something or other. Seemingly without warning, and defying all known laws of physics, the ski immediately started heading down the hill, as if drawn by a power far greater...

To say that the vast majority of my co-workers are not out of doors types would be an understatement. As such, I'm often placed in the situation of explaining what the hell it is I do all winter when not at work. "I ski." Most people just sort of glaze over immediately at this point, but occasionall...