What would make me and good friend John Sweeney get up at 4:30am, drive one way for 1.5 hours, tour for 2 hours in sub 0 degree temperatures?  Powder & Photography.  See below:

33 inches of snow fell on Mount Baker this prior week and then sunshine broke through, the combination I typically can only dream of.  Sakeus Bankson and Pat Haggarty woke up nice and early with me in order to get up into the Mt. Baker backcountry by sunrise…we didn’t leave until sunset, it was that [...]

This was the recipe of success for yesterdays mellow tour in the sun around Table Mountain.  We all new the snow wouldn’t be great but the sun would be shining high in the sky.  Sure enough the snow was variable but at this point the backcountry is hard to distinguish from in bounds riding due [...]

Washington’s winter weather has been extremely confusing.  Last week a total 11+ inches fell up at Mount Baker, the last day snow fell was the previous Monday.  Six days have passed and yesterday’s snow conditions were pretty incredible, dry, light fluffy powder was found all over northerly facing slopes.  I headed up there to meet [...]