tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79311663631154017242024-02-07T01:32:08.754-08:00Scotty McGeeClients, trips, work, family, stories of Scotty McGee, from skiing for the PSIA Nordic Team, Snow King and Jackson Hole Mountain Resorts to guiding for Exum Mountain Guides in the Tetons to facilitating for Grand Dynamics to writing ski technique articles for Ski Trax and 32 DegreesScotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-34940364458180617642017-10-28T23:11:00.002-07:002017-10-29T00:21:02.486-07:00Scotty's March SelkoPhoto Shoot at Grand Targhee<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
March Photoshoot at Grand Targhee</h2>
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Super sweet shots from Jonathan Selkowitz for my articles about Tele Technique for Ski Trax magazine.</h4>
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Photomontage caught my eye early in my instructing career, and it was long my dream to be able to produce stitched images such as these.</h4>
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There are more great shots...</h4>
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These are available for commercial uses by contact with either Jonathan or me.</h4>
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A great day representing Snow King with colleague Bart Conrad and great powder to boot. Check out this video by Lindsey Dyer.<br />
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Ours was the 10th set of turns from the right.<br />
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And another more historical look: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJUD6HwPJ8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJUD6HwPJ8</a><br />
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Awesome day yesterday, doing a big loop from Lewis Lake. Snow was PRIMO, and I caught it before it got soft. Fun, fast conditions. Check it out!<br />
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Aster Lake tour May 14, 2014<br />
It may seem like there's an awful lot of skiing through open forests on loud snow, and some of my humor might be lost to the music, but hey, I'm still a rookie at this film production stuff - if you can call it that. The thing is, as fast as some of it seems, and as long as it runs, you might think it miles, but it's really just small fraction of the of the long gradual traverse along the foothills of the Sheridan massif, which stretches for several miles. West of Heart Lake, and north of the nascent Snake River, just inside Yellowstone's South Entrance.<br />
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It was my first big tour of the year, and barely a scouting mission at that. 12 miles in just under four hours, a not-very-impressive 3 mph average. But that was with a lot of gaping - if I can self-declare. And as much as the gradual grade is fairly ideal for climbing on skate skis, there's matching elevation gain for each vertical foot of the descent, seen in the YouTube downhill footage.</div>
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And at the end, I did meet a couple of YNP Rangers who informed me about a Bear Management Area that's on the Park maps, with signage at the snow-covered trailhead. So they graciously educated me about the closure from April 1 to June 30, between the Heart Lake Trailhead, Heart Lake and a big chunk of terrain to the east. For the actual closure map, see: <a href="http://www.nps.gov/yell/parkmgmt/bearclosures.htm">http://www.nps.gov/yell/parkmgmt/bearclosures.htm</a>.</div>
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Who knew huckleberry leaves could be so red!?<br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">is Scott McGee’s debut into authoring books
and the culmination of years of work and study in the field of nordic skiing,
teaching and training instructors. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Start off on the right foot if you’re new to
the sport, gain key insights if you’ve been at it a while, or get ideas for
teaching and coaching if that is your role. Scott’s approach to cross country
technique is informed by high-end cross country ski racing coaching, and
tempered with a knowledge of what works on snow, for folks of different ages
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book can help you launch your pursuit of cross country skiing, and boost your
skills, efficiency and understanding of technique. With attention to equipment
and waxing, beginning and intermediate steps for classic and skate, downhill
techniques, training, safety, family fun and all the places you can go on cross
country skis, McGee’s book provides a detailed yet digestible guide to basic
skiing essentials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><i>“Reading is not skiing! But when
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you get a little snow under your ski. You’ll find yourself standing up and
practicing every move on the carpet while you read. I did.”</i> –David Lawrence,
PSIA Nordic Team<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><i>“There is not an author who
understands cross country skiing better. Scott’s experience teaching beginners,
writing instructional manuals, guiding in the high country and coaching
seasoned racers allows him to share what would take most skiers more than a
lifetime to learn on their own. I wish I had this when I started, the
“school of hard knocks” was expensive and time consuming.”</i> – Craig Panarisi, Director, Stratton
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America/American Association of Snowboard Instructors (PSIA/AASI) Nordic Team.
Now in his 23<sup>rd</sup> year of ski teaching, racing, training and coaching,
he works as senior manager in the Jackson Hole Mountain Sports School. He is
also the proud husband of eight years and father of two young daughters. In addition to skiing and
writing, McGee’s other pursuits include kayaking and stand up paddle boarding,
gluten-free baking, organizing ski events, and taking the kids skiing. </span><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i>Granite Peak from near the top of Tempest Peak in the Beartooth Range.</i><br />
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Known as the most technical of the state high-points, Granite Peak stands out for a number of reasons: remoteness, rock quality, scenery (on the drive, approach and from the summit), ruggedness and... spiders (more on that later).<br />
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I wanted to climb Granite in a day to assess the terrain, route, difficulty and conditions. Guidebook author Tom Turiano's words still ring in my ears "interminable boulders." And yes, boulder hopping was what I did for what seems like most of the day, both up and down.<br />
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Mystic Lake greeted my dawn 3 miles up the trail, with it's all too impressive over-the-brink dam.<br />
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The lake was quiet further on, and the going easy on the maintained trail. Ease was not to be the word of the day from the moment I headed up the Huckleberry drainage on a faint and wandering, sometimes choked climbers' trail. Following a series of difficult near-bushwhacks and boulder-hops, from lake to lake, climbing 500 to 1000 feet between each, I finally wrapped around the corner enough to see my ultimate destination. Here, the boulder hopping would begin in earnest, and continue for hours on end, taking me around the east (right) shore of Avalanche Lake, pictured below. After the lakeshore boulder hopping, if it looks like a long way over loose rock to the head of the drainage, well, it is.<br />
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One funny thing about traveling through boulders in this part of Montana is that spiders seem to thrive, and they build these massive webs from a 'high line' sometimes spanning 8-10 feet between high points on boulders. Somewhere in the middle the spider would have build the classic spiral 'net' to catch its meals, and she would lie in wait in the center, often setting her web to vibrate as I stepped on nearby rocks (a web-preservation maneuver?).<br />
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At first, due to the inherent 'ick' factor, as well as some small consideration for the creature's hard work, I avoided these webs, but sometimes I wouldn't see them until it was too late, or they were practically unavoidable. So I gave in to practicality and simply crashed through them. Given that there were webs between virtually every rock, unless I was rock-hopping on the tops, I'd find webs virtually every step of the way. In this fashion, I must have crashed through a few hundred spider webs in one day.<br />
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There were virtually no bugs down low, but as I got up to the middle elevations, around 8500-10000 ft, there were swarms of mosquitoes that would leap off of the vegetation and launch in my general direction, just as soon as I passed by. Fortunately these were the dumb and slow variety, so simply picking up my pace allowed me to 'get away.' In this fashion, I think I avoided bug bites all day.<br />
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I also fancied I trailed a few bugs into spider webs, hopefully in reparation for the damage to the webs.<br />
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At the top of the Huckleberry drainage, scrambling and climbing began in earnest. The route to the summit has about 4 minor cruxes and one major one, a climb of about 50 feet. It was all very do-able, and fun to boot.<br />
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Sharing the summit with me here is Clara's pet finger puppet, Pekka the Pika.<br />
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Despite the presence of a fair bit of loose rock, the rock that was in place was very solid. Every time you needed a hold, there was one waiting. You just had to find it. And when you did, you had a solid hold. Despite vigorous testing, I found no rocks willing to part with their mountain.<br />
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The boulders were similarly solid. While occasionally misjudging a rock's stability is par for the course, there were very few rocks or boulders that shifted underfoot, leading me to theorize that weathering 'locks the rocks in place' as water stays longer where rocks contact each other.<br />
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On my way down from the summit, I encountered a mother goat and kid, both very good climbers, despite the lack of modern equipment. While scampering apparently unphased by the massive exposure, I continued to move cautiously, albeit inspired by the natives.
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blogged by Scotty McGee</div>Scotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-43992367753906272382012-04-08T03:40:00.000-07:002012-04-08T03:40:00.518-07:00Forks over Knives<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Forks Over Knives - The DVD" src="http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/urhug.pmurt/v/vspfiles/photos/5000-1.jpg?1320411689" /></div>Here's a great movie about the work of two doctors to establish links between diet and 'chronic' conditions like heart disease and cancers. Very compelling, it may make you want to change your diet.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/279734/forks-over-knives">http://www.hulu.com/watch/279734/forks-over-knives</a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blogged by Scotty McGee</div>Scotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-14376084448015396552011-11-20T00:37:00.000-08:002011-11-20T00:39:57.553-08:00Snow Flipper Name Choice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8i3UjAMjvIPtn_GwoKHYNI3hcuaKylF6LJVAsxjP0urV0aDb405zyxXDxRZ-LORLcVBGjNrksR9Sr27fmhnfFcq3W_b0cM5PdLIGQjgY9HBJTxM05mXcAlkp5PKXU4yJ94WJV3hwywXsD/s1600/flipperdeluxe_2_big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8i3UjAMjvIPtn_GwoKHYNI3hcuaKylF6LJVAsxjP0urV0aDb405zyxXDxRZ-LORLcVBGjNrksR9Sr27fmhnfFcq3W_b0cM5PdLIGQjgY9HBJTxM05mXcAlkp5PKXU4yJ94WJV3hwywXsD/s320/flipperdeluxe_2_big.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #618f8b; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Check out this article about a great presentation </div><div style="text-align: center;">at Interski in January, 2011 in St. Anton, AUT</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?pid=explorer&srcid=1PG_AlUaWu_S77UQNr6BcwHfnsM2t3WGE5fxPgCYeEKdHtqx6ruRqduwtfTen&chrome=true&docid=1cfc8caa62a1b185be44c1521d612a85%7C91c8eef37d464cb0f8efcfc652ea27ec&a=bi&pagenumber=1&w=1908" width="302" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click here for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1PG_AlUaWu_S77UQNr6BcwHfnsM2t3WGE5fxPgCYeEKdHtqx6ruRqduwtfTen&hl=en_US">full story</a>:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And now for something a little different!...</span></span></div><div><h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">GF Zuchini waffles with Jack Cheese</span></h1><h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P9vx5t9nmCNCHEblO7NUeqrh5BL82H0BqCq7XOHHTtw/edit?hl=en_US">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P9vx5t9nmCNCHEblO7NUeqrh5BL82H0BqCq7XOHHTtw/edit?hl=en_US</a></span></h1></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blogged by Scotty McGee</div>Scotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-72305486223131063352011-09-25T22:27:00.000-07:002011-09-25T22:28:49.689-07:00McGee Family trip to Midway Geyser Basin<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px">After camping for two nights at Madison Campground in the western part of the park, we headed for a long awaited visit to the Grand Prismatic Spring, Tuquoise and Opal Pools, and the Excelsior Geyser.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNfv5GOGAu8Y0lb1tIv_AF03Icaz7E7-NgENwCZlafH3qxE3pPz3WfaoWr2bRY4qrX7hjME9kFfI7hJgeLX6SHup84OXwCAA42Z1wX6g2JaWFckLJf1lA_Ev1TdqMW6Pv3pz2h7n_Qn6C/s1600/IMAG0131.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNfv5GOGAu8Y0lb1tIv_AF03Icaz7E7-NgENwCZlafH3qxE3pPz3WfaoWr2bRY4qrX7hjME9kFfI7hJgeLX6SHup84OXwCAA42Z1wX6g2JaWFckLJf1lA_Ev1TdqMW6Pv3pz2h7n_Qn6C/s400/IMAG0131.jpg" /></a><br />The sight of steam rising from the meadows in the Lower Geyser Basin was just a hit of what was ahead.</div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEKgtaDLhtUnjNTlMCQZ1-10DNkr8-UIJIRQNRRwezYckTlKInhHBdUm_v7BlgTFaS6IWJIQbbMA2aOCqUQlkqpfozdh_e2_3vpon7pdPlhtac7668D5gumhYle6o8hSw23IPbxxz63Gi/s1600/IMAG0136.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEKgtaDLhtUnjNTlMCQZ1-10DNkr8-UIJIRQNRRwezYckTlKInhHBdUm_v7BlgTFaS6IWJIQbbMA2aOCqUQlkqpfozdh_e2_3vpon7pdPlhtac7668D5gumhYle6o8hSw23IPbxxz63Gi/s400/IMAG0136.jpg" /></a><br />The bridge over the Firehole River</div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZDcDCNc7iFusiH8yDk0s3R1TcnNlLXx3OJJSaeFvrbv1p8-r68XtpDCPD33DOo7De0XBtE4JSsGl4HTQHP86BZ3f-z0Rx9qfCnqM7IZeadtYC4Dq7gT-zjZEQs4DoVH-aJu1_OYLlGsI/s1600/IMAG0152.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZDcDCNc7iFusiH8yDk0s3R1TcnNlLXx3OJJSaeFvrbv1p8-r68XtpDCPD33DOo7De0XBtE4JSsGl4HTQHP86BZ3f-z0Rx9qfCnqM7IZeadtYC4Dq7gT-zjZEQs4DoVH-aJu1_OYLlGsI/s400/IMAG0152.jpg" /></a><br />Red from the microorganisms known as 'thermofiles'</div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro5xtJ1XaLk7wKwS1edAWt-y3N4lX-tc5fhb8Nrz2kxkxfkJZtI7hCmYWC_r5Q2yaz0grs6KEZ_ISOnLrLTCCIRiRSCPmRxxX6wQ_XAYeuSfozEnRrOekB9rbzY_syfna-KWMMzJKecjq/s1600/IMAG0153.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro5xtJ1XaLk7wKwS1edAWt-y3N4lX-tc5fhb8Nrz2kxkxfkJZtI7hCmYWC_r5Q2yaz0grs6KEZ_ISOnLrLTCCIRiRSCPmRxxX6wQ_XAYeuSfozEnRrOekB9rbzY_syfna-KWMMzJKecjq/s400/IMAG0153.jpg" /></a><br />All the colors of the rainbow</div><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blogged by Scotty McGee</div>Scotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-73273857002411342462011-08-24T01:53:00.000-07:002011-08-24T02:25:12.766-07:00Skiing the Stettner Couloir on June 20, 2001<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">Thanks to Brendan Burns for sharing these pics of an awesome climb and descent! <br />
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You can check out my earlier report here: <a href="http://scottymcski.blogspot.com/2011/06/grand-teton-skiboard-attempt.html">http://scottymcski.blogspot.com/2011/06/grand-teton-skiboard-attempt.html</a> <br />
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And watch a slide show/video from my camera here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo</a> <br />
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Climbing up to the Tepee Col</div><br />
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Clouds above and below... </div><br />
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Time to layer up! </div><br />
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Planning the descent route from the Tepee Col... </div><br />
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A look up into the Stettner <br />
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Above the first crux, the couloir was filled in...</div><br />
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...conditions were great, with dense, but dry, powder. Climbing was easier over on the left, where the new snow was shallower with crampons holding securely on the ice.</div><br />
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A small snow sluff came down only this once... </div><br />
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Cresting the second crux </div><br />
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Passing the final crux and ascending into the whiteout... </div><br />
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...after brief deliberation, we decided to descend, rather than climb further into whiteout, thinking it might be poor form if our tracks were to get blown in and we were to lose our line on the way down.<br />
Time for some turns!</div><br />
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A long skinny way down </div><br />
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And out by the lovely Delta Lake <br />
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Thanks Patagonia, <br />
Rossignol, 22 Designs, Leki, Crispi, <br />
Smith Optics, Hestra, Osprey, Swix <br />
Ski Trax, 32 Degrees, Shred-White-and-Blue,<br />
Bill Briggs<br />
and PSIA/AASI!<br />
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These photos are mostly in the 3 Mb range. Please let me know if you want to use them for other purposes.<br />
Photos by Brendan Burns</div><br />
<div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blogged by Scotty McGee</div>Scotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-67589255846021587192011-08-22T00:09:00.000-07:002011-08-22T00:11:51.660-07:00Grand Teton August 21...<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">...with Mark and Paul, and fellow Exum Guide, Tyson Bradley, on the Owen-Spaulding route. <br />
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We had (litterally) stellar conditions: Mild temps, Light wind, and a quarter moon. We were treated to a lightning show some 40 miles to the south, but not a worry for us. Give it up for these two hardy mountaineers topping out on the Grand Teton yesterday! <br />
Some highlights: <br />
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Paul finishes the Belly Roll, as the shadow of the Grand pops out over Idaho</div><br />
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Paul belays Tyson and Mark <br />
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The half moon over the Owen Chimney</div><br />
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The Enclosure with Grand shadows </div><br />
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Paul at the top of the Owen Chimney, with Mt. Moran in the background </div><br />
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Tyson and Mark start up the Owen Chimney with Valhalla Canyon joining Cascade Canyon far below </div><br />
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Mark at the crux of the Owen Chimney, with verglas showing up on all the best footholds (Doh!) <br />
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Mark, thankful for Paul's belay, at the top of the Sargent Chimney</div><br />
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On the way down, I caught sight of some Teton Edelweiss (actually Alpine Phlox) hiding between a skunky clump of Sky Pilot and the Black Dike itself, replete with orange lichen. </div><br />
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Being at 11,200 feet give you an awesome perspective from which to watch the sun go down. Here, we can see far enough that when the sun drops below the clouds, we catch the pink light shining up on the underside of the clouds, a short-lived but amazing phenomenon.<br />
And yes, we did get rain that night.</div><br />
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<br />Early summiteers, (by 8 am) on a windy but clear day. We could see the plume from Old Faithful over Yellowstone!</div>
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<br />Still a lot of snow on the north sides of the peaks as this photo portrays. And we got to glissade on our way down from the Lower Saddle.</div>
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<br />A talented and strong young woman and a father with a lot to be proud of!</div>
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<br />It was great to run into Cliff at the top of the Grand.</div>
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<br />Last time I saw Cliff we were skiing off the Tram (just left of his helmet in the picture) back in February.</div>
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<br />To other climbs on other days!</div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope you’re enjoying summer, and that it’s finally arrived in your corner of the world…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m happy to be sharing some exciting news with you: I’ve been asked by Falcon Guides Publishing to write a book – My first book deal(!) – called Basic Illustrated Cross Country Skiing. I was contacted back in February, but only recently have things solidified enough to say it’s a sure thing. Parts are due July 1 and Sept 1, and Feb 22 is the final deadline, so the book will hit the shelves in the fall of 2012. Here's a link to the Falcon Web Site: <o:p></o:p></span><a href="http://www.falcon.com/">http://www.falcon.com/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks to those among you who have already offered support and encouragement. Please let me know if you're interested in reviewing, or simply pre-reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks again! All my Best!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scotty</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blogged by Scotty McGee</div>Scotty McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14477592798448637393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931166363115401724.post-36192826899426970882011-06-22T23:42:00.000-07:002011-06-22T23:59:11.498-07:00Grand Teton Ski/Board Attempt<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo">tried to ski the Grand</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> Teton Monday… </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahnNTOzLoo</a>) by way of the original first descent route, the Stettner Couloir seen here. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_twfreKgdFaSEkPMZgZ0jIFVcuL09SPCv8MFS1OEjfVNCEAe6ce45A1MxzGEf9Rxh0ksj5knhkhFTPeUjAUbdOm2MZZxqfOHRyfsyvr649EfTFFyVFPmb1QiehELeJCxdLsnoEsYdR0bM/s1600/GT+Ski+attempt+1+201106202-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_twfreKgdFaSEkPMZgZ0jIFVcuL09SPCv8MFS1OEjfVNCEAe6ce45A1MxzGEf9Rxh0ksj5knhkhFTPeUjAUbdOm2MZZxqfOHRyfsyvr649EfTFFyVFPmb1QiehELeJCxdLsnoEsYdR0bM/s320/GT+Ski+attempt+1+201106202-3.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">My partner Brendan Burns and I got through all of the cruxes, but we left the </span><a href="http://www.powdermag.com/stories/40th-anniversary-bill-briggs-ski-descent-of-grand-teton/" title="http://www.powdermag.com/stories/40th-anniversary-bill-briggs-ski-descent-of-grand-teton/">upper E. Face</a> and the last 800 feet to the summit for another day. It was a fine adventure, and although travel was slowed by some punchy, unfrozen snow, the avalanche danger was low and the snow was soft enough to make the steep skiing altogether pleasant. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">It has been a tricky spring to try to hit the conditions for this kind of route. Freezing nights have been rare due to the amount of precipitation (much of it snow) that continued to fall. According to an advisory from the Jenny Lake Rangers</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"</span></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><o:p></o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">The Teton Range contains an unprecedented amount of snowpack for this time of year. Unusual conditions exist due to an unseasonably cool and wet spring following a record winter snowfall with 732 inches recorded at the Raymer plot on Rendezvous Mountain (elevation 9,300 feet)."</span> </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had some good timing relative to changing conditions, and were able to climb in relatively low hazard conditions.</span><br />
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