http://www.upskiing.com Alpine Ascent with UpSki Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:41:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bud and Tania got married on Saturday August 30th, and UpSki was well represented. Not only was the toast given by an UpSkier Trey but the Pig was roasted by Brian and the cake was baked by lady friend of Pete. The Groom was none other than Bud Robinson and ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/09/02/summer-of-love/ Kevin Passmore bought an UpSki, sight unseen, from an online listing this spring. He had seen one used near Loveland Pass 4 years ago and wanted to add this unique equipment to his quiver of Kites and backcountry tools. He got a great deal when an almost brand new, shiney, red-yellow-blue ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/06/16/the-carousel-canopy/ Twining Peak reaches 13,777 feet and at least one UpSkier made it to 13,770 feet on Saturday June 7th, 2008. UpSkiing to the Summit is not usually the objective and when Kevin Passmore guided his UpSki up the final Summit pitch on Twining Peak it was just a fun photo op. ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/06/11/upskiing-in-june/ John and Sara Stanford visited mid-May to work on the UpSki, travel to Leadville with Kristie and I for dinner at the Grill and just have fun.  We then worked on some new concepts for a lightweight Mountaineering UpSki. The best of John's hours of work back at his shop ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/05/26/upski-renewal/ John Stanford, upski co-inventor, designer and sewing geek extraodinaire, has been cooking up some new equipment to meet the needs of the Colorado Back Country crowd. He will be in town next week for on snow testing. As you can see from these photo's the sport of UpSki and it's equipment ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/05/07/cobbler-john-upski-designs/  Jon Harrington, who has been UpSkiing almost from the beginning of the sport, suggested to his neighbors Dan and Clarice that learning to ride the wind might make for a fun afternoon. A major winter storm was arriving as they UpSkied Loveland Pass on the last day of April.  Great ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/05/01/dan-and-clarice/  Long time Breckenridge buddies: Brian, Pete and Bud took a windy UpSki ride in tunnel bowl on Sunday the 20th. Huge Cornice on the white wave area of the bowl, some of them approaching 20 feet of vertical. After brief checkout, Pete followed buddies Brian and Bud out of the base ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/04/20/power-rides-in-tunnel-bowl/  Warren has climbed almost all of Colorado's Fourteeners and extensively ski tours. So for him, strong gusty winds were just to be expected on his first UpSki outing. Tunnel Bowl and the peaks above and beyond it are often used for training walks by Warren and his friends, on this ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/04/16/warrens-windy-day/  Paul decided that he would try that funny sounding sport outing offered by his wife Mary's Technology Instructor. So one of the first UpSki visits into the Tunnel Bowl was launched on 4/5/2008 with Paul, game to go. After some instruction and almost no wind to speak of, things picked up for Paul and me as ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/04/06/april-is-peak-upski-season/ Big winds and lots of snow, just the March forecast we had in mind. The back country remains "multi-faceted" in more ways than one. Coming down will continue to be more dangerous then going up but expect to trigger deep hard slabs on almost all aspects. Winds have remained W ... http://www.upskiing.com/2008/03/05/march-like-a-lion/