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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. Worthington Glacier – Mountain Biking. August 13, 2015. It’s been a different type of biking this summer for me as I am taking a break from my road bike and time trials that have dominated my last few summers. My mountain bike has been regulated to local transportation during the winter and summer, with occasional rides around town in places like Mineral Creek. Last week I rode all […]. Picture of the Day – Mountain Biking. November 19, 2014.
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DNR Denies Black Ops Permits – July 30, 2015 – Thompsonpass.com
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. DNR Denies Black Ops Permits – July 30, 2015. July 30, 2015. The Department of Natural Resources has denied two(2) Land Use Permit applications by Black Ops submitted last spring One permit would have allowed Black Ops use of a portion of the old Valdez Heli-Camp site at Mile 18. In the decision the Department noted potential conflicts with Alaska Snowboard Guides who have a permit for the site issued in 2014. Here are the Decision documents. Wizard...
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White Room – Thompsonpass.com
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. My essays on outdoor adventure including trips, gear reviews, avalanches. etc. Back In The Day – Opening The Books 1983. March 29, 2016. Back In The Day. First Winter Ascent of Sugarloaf Mountain – 1981. February 28, 2016. Back In The Day. New In The “White Room” – Airbag Attitudes. December 22, 2014. Throughout my backcountry ski life, a number of safety devices have come along that one should have when traveling in avalanche terrain. A problem...
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. Flood Watch With Dusting – August 24, 2016. August 24, 2016. Sierra – Great Divide Double Traverse. August 17, 2016. Good-Bye Damalanche 2014 – It’s Finally Gone. July 20, 2016. Within the next week, a small patch of snow will melt at the base of Snowslide Gulch. Lasting nearly 2-1/2 years, this is the last dirty white remnant of the debris pile from the largest avalanches cycle ever seen in Valdez. The enormous amount of snow that slid off ...Twent...
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. June 23, 2016. Bradford Washburn opened his first photo business in Valdez in 1936. It was from the tidal mudflats near town where he took his camera to the sky over mountains for the first time and framed glaciers and mountains, including the Shoup. The rest is history as far as his glacier photography and of course his mountaineering. I get plenty of […]. Spring Ski Report – Video – All Good Things Must End(for now). June 16, 2016. June 15, 2016.
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Backcountry News – Taylor and Salys Go Big – Thompsonpass.com
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. Backcountry News – Taylor and Salys Go Big. August 7, 2015. Seems like there is renewed interest in Valdez peak bagging this summer. Though many of the summits around Valdez were first climbed in the early 80’s by the aggressive “Peak-a-Week Club”, winter interest soon left the peaks a paradise for winter ascents and ski descents. Sapphire East Ridge (Taylor). Weather continues to amaze as we are on pace for our second driest year in history and per...
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. In 2006, Matt published Alaska Backcountry Skiing: Valdez and Thompson Pass. As a backcountry ski guide, Matt shared his. Favorite runs on the forested slopes or the classic wide open terrain that makes Valdez skiing the best in the world. Day after day he put clients on the best snow. He did this by maintaining a high level of training and by skiing hundreds of days each season in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. Short Term 72 hour.
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Guide Book – Thompsonpass.com
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. Alaska Backcountry Skiing: Valdez and Thompson Pass. Like many skiers, I’ve been brainwashed into believing the only way to ski the Valdez Chugach Mountains of Alaska is by helicopter. Boy, was I wrong. 8211; Lou Dawson – www.wildsnow.com. The book can be ordered through Thompson Pass Treks. It is also available online through Title Wave Books, REI in Anchorage, and Gulliver Books in Fairbanks. Please contact us by email for shipping elsewhere.
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Worthington Glacier – Mountain Biking – Thompsonpass.com
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. Worthington Glacier – Mountain Biking. August 13, 2015. It’s been a different type of biking this summer for me as I am taking a break from my road bike and time trials that have dominated my last few summers. My mountain bike has been regulated to local transportation during the winter and summer, with occasional rides around town in places like Mineral Creek. We parked at the entrance to the park along the highway and rode up the pavement to the v...
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Backcountry Skiing.Your Winter Window Into The Chugach. Personal views, written public comments on a variety of local environmental issues. Goodbye “Hope” Francis. September 28, 2015. May 11, 2015. Proposition 2- Winter Tourism – Bob Marley. November 6, 2014. Like having reasonable alcohol rules, marijuana will now becomes legal in Alaska 90 days after Tuesday’s elections. Skiers and yes, summer tourist will find Alaska just as they always have, but without the draconian laws against a natural ...The Ala...
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