How to Make Friends’ Ski Boots Wet.  LCC’s Y-Not Couloir.

How to Make Friends’ Ski Boots Wet. LCC’s Y-Not Couloir.

Little Cottonwood Canyon’s Y-Couloir is a surprisingly famous run in Utah’s Wasatch mountains.  When I write “surprisingly,” I mean “surprisingly” in the same way that it’s “surprising” each time you see a magazine at a supermarket checkout brightly featuring “63 Ways to Please Your Lover on the Airplane.”  In “The Y,” a few thousand vertical(…)

Park City: Banksy Playground for a Week

Park City: Banksy Playground for a Week

Ever since the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, I hadn’t seen any of the artwork that legendary street artist Banksy had allegedly scattered around town.  On my walk to the public Canyons ski bus this morning, I passed this piece. Banksy was the focus of the 2010 film Exit Through the Gift(…)

A Reason to Share: What People Unknowingly Offer Me

A Reason to Share: What People Unknowingly Offer Me

Regardless of lifestyle choices, it’s hard to disagree with anyone’s positivity.  Here is a recent email I received from someone I’ve never met. Hi Brody, ______told me about meeting you [along your ride], and then pointed me toward your website, which I have been reading every day. Your post Don’t Squander a Moment, part 2is an amazing story.(…)

Canyons, Utah – Day #5 with Brody and the Media Circus

Canyons, Utah – Day #5 with Brody and the Media Circus

Canyons is so fun right now.  While I’ve only been back in the good ol’ red white and blue for a week and a half, I’ve smiled through some epic days of shredding with friendlies @thecanyons. Tim (of tjvideography.com) accidentally left his DSLR in video mode, resulting in this: I haven’t actually skied very much this(…)

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Last/Final Part 5 Weather or Not: Granite Peak, Montana Without Sleep

Last/Final Part 5 Weather or Not: Granite Peak, Montana Without Sleep

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 The snow increased, as did the number of times I lost my footing.   I was really, really tired. Robin held up much better than I.  After a bunch of pitches on rappel and even more just downclimbing, we eventually got off the rock, put our ropes away,(…)