It’s a bit early to post a ski edit, simply because there’s no skiing in Utah right now. But if you go to South America, there’s all the snow you need this time of year to farm some corn and shoot tons of video documenting the experience of skiing in the summer. We’ve been...
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The cold wood deck pressed against my back as I laid down in the frozen night at Refugio Baguales and gazed on an alien-looking sky. Trippy music emanated from Justin’s phone as we all stretched out in a row, picking out constellations our own imaginations had to conjure, as the southern-hemisphere night held no...
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After our time spent at Refugio Frey, we needed to decide how to return to civilization. We debated about going back the way we came in through Valle Van Titter and The Notch, but overnight temperatures that dropped to 20 degrees meant that particular slope would be frozen solid. Most people who visit the...
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“Refugio. Refugio. Refugio. Refugio? Refugio?” Our waitress stared at Adam with a complete lack of understanding on her face. He was trying to explain to her in a painfully American accent that we were on our way to Refugio Frey, a stone, backcountry hut located on the shores of Laguna Toncek beneath massive rock...
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Summer in Utah means winter in the southern hemisphere, so for addicted-to-turns skiers like myself, traveling to a place like Argentina is the only option to defy the seasons and magically ski in September. Luckily, I have friends who have the same mindset, including Justin Lozier and Sean Zimmerman-Wall of Patagonia Ski Tours, who...
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It happens every summer. The warm months get downright hot, and all the snow melts in the Wasatch, leaving brown cliffs and scree fields instead of snow. Nothing quite makes me lament the disappearance of ski season as much as the fact that I haven’t skied in months, and the knowledge that the next...
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