After the last few attempts on Rainier, which have been mostly successful in terms of skiing lines but unsuccessful in terms of summitting, an idea formed to try something in two days instead of the single push method. The idea came in a revelation on a previous trip to Rainier when I was hallucinating during a short break.

We've skied three times this month... the driest July on record... and it rained or snowed on every trip. How does that work? This trip we hit fresh snow on the last day of July, for real, atop none other than Mt Baker, Washington, USA.

Ever since first reading the Hummels tales of skiing and exploring the north slopes of Mt.

When Mt Baker got slammed with the first storm of the season, we all knew an early Opening  Day was in the works. What we didn't know is that it would be the deepest Opening Day snow base in Mt Baker's history.  It wasn't just any storm afterall. Every time we looked at the snow report and forecast, the number of inches matched or exceeded the number of hours that had passed.

3:30 pm Sep 7 - It's late into the best sunny pow day of the season... but we're not skiing. After 8 hours of driving in search of snow, things are getting ugly.

Our trip to El Colorado, Chile got off to a rough start with absolutely bullet proof refrozen snow and poor visibility. Looking up at it's predictable cone-like shape and multiple chairs leading to the same place, we started to wonder what we'd gotten into. Wasn't this place known for awesome snow and killer terrain?

Well... almost live, and almost there. It had to be done. Reports of deeeep pow, cheap steak, and South American babes were streaming in left, right and center, leaving Doglotion.com no choice but to go find out what the deal is in South America.

Shames Mountain is a little hole in the wall ski resort near Terrace, British Columbia. Located in a snow-zone in the North - Central Coast Mountains, this obscure little hills averages 12 meters (approximately 40 feet) of snowfall a year. Not a big deal in itself. I live in the South West B.C.

With over 14 inches of snow falling at Alyeska Resort in the last 24 hours, competitors had to manage soft conditions and variable visibility in their one charge at “The Knuckles” a 1,000 foot vertical run off Alyeska’s North Face.