Adventures 4
Amazing Discovery!
“CAUTION!” the trail map warns. “The extreme terrain served by this lift is very steep, unpredictable and ungroomed. There are many obstacles, rocks, cliffs, old fallen trees and snags.” If that isn’t enough it then adds, “You must know how to self arrest!”
Massive Storm In Sun Valley
Seventy mile an hour winds pushed onshore. Eureka, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and Santa Cruz experienced three inches of rain in as many hours and the evening news showed frantic sandbagging and muddy creeks in place of roads.
Riding the Rails to Jasper
One of greatest threats to the American family is it no longer rides trains together. Families may fly, everyone does, but a middle seat, a bag of honey mustard pretzels and plastic cup of apple juice isn’t travel.
Secret Sun Valley
The story of Count Felix Schaffgotsch’s search for the American St. Moritz, is the stuff both fantasies, and legends, are made of.
Doug Coombs, Scott Schmidt, Craig Kelly, Extreme Valdez
Schmidt tries to avoid the limelight but is constantly approached by Coombs’ heliskiing clients who have watched him ski in dozens of movies.
The White Clouds
When summer thunder storms lift across the White Cloud’s high peaks, the resulting late afternoon cumulus provide vast canvasses for the setting sun’s salmon, yellow and purple light.
Rusty Squire’s World Vertical
Attempting to ski 300,000 vertical feet in a single day is comparable to trying to high jump eight feet, run a sub two-hour marathon, or a 3:40 mile.
Hidden Bogus Basin
Some years ago a Bellevue, Idaho man discovered a strong box in his back yard filled with gold double eagles. For me Bogus is like that strong box,
The Peer Gynt Trail
Norwegian history records that, to secure the Norwegian succession of kings in 1206, two Birkebeiner carried the two-year old Håkon Håkonson across the Lillehammer Mountains.
Mount Borah
The Borah trail started fast and didn’t let up. Rising thirteen hundred feet per mile for a 24% grade, the only respite was when the trail switched back across a sheer fall line.