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Buttery smooth powday up in the alpine. Not a bad

Buttery smooth powday up in the alpine. Not a bad consolation prize for no wind to snowkite.

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#powday #powder #snowboarding #alpine #powderskiing #snow #backcountryskiing

Saw a moon dog the first night after setting up th

Saw a moon dog the first night after setting up the hot tent and wood stove. Then, it began to snow, continuing for the next day and a half. Each night, this meant waking up every few hours to clear the snow off the tent. But, it was pretty awesome being able to warm up and dry gear in the tent each evening.

No avalanche forecasts for this area, so we tried an extended column test — 👎 conditions were suboptimal.

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Not wanting to unpack the sleds, we set off into t

Not wanting to unpack the sleds, we set off into the mountains at 2 am for 11 days of snowkiting, after a 10-hour drive. The first night involved a short ski tour to a pretty awesome cabin nearby. The next day, we skinned up the mountain to a point just below the treeline, burritos of gear in tow, and set up the hot tent.

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Researching, developing, and testing pulk sleds, a

Researching, developing, and testing pulk sleds, a hot tent, and a wood stove consumed most of December in preparation for a snowkite trip up north over the holidays.

Built two pulk sleds with slightly different designs:
- HDPE vs. UHMWPE
- fish tail vs. scooped tail
- fins vs. ski skin
Experimented on the trip with two different methods for keeping the sleds tracking in the ski skin track. Surprisingly, the ski skin was way better than the aluminum angle fins for tracking and side hilling. But, it’d be interesting to test on steeper terrain.

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#TRcaves | no. 3 Venturing into an ice cave, to g

#TRcaves | no. 3

Venturing into an ice cave, to get to a limestone cave. It’s crazy to think of how long these voids have been around and yet how few people have been in them.

Sadly, this one didn’t go. It ended in a heap of frost-shattered rocks with air blasting through the crevices — tantalizing us with a hint of the unknown that lies beneath.

#TRcaves | no. 2 Oh, the places you’ll go for

#TRcaves | no. 2

Oh, the places you’ll go for project caving. Hiking through fireweed to get up into the alpine and look for caves.

Caving has certainly taken us to some beautiful, obscure parts of the world.