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Mount Cayley TR: long day, spring skiing, gong show, and supernatural Thunderbird

Stano — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:06:47 +0000

Have you ever heard of Mount Cayley? Because I haven’t until two weeks ago. Mt. Cayley is a stratovolcano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cayley) in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt that managed to elude my good friend Tomas on two previous attempts. It’s not a high mountain, only 2377m, but it’s far away enough that lots of things have time [...]

Nina Silitch interview: Skimo racing mom gets the first ever ski mountaineering World Cup win for North America

Stano — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:03:49 +0000

On April 5th I congratulated Nina (via her blog) on a great racing season and asked whether she would consider an interview for Skintrack. A day later she replied: “I’d be happy to…”. However, at that point I didn’t realize there was one more World Cup weekend left on the calendar and that it featured [...]

Transcript from a live Twitter interview with Reiner Thoni (North American ski mountaineering champion)

Stano — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:20:44 +0000

The following is a transcript from a live interview we did (@Skintrack) with Reiner Thoni (@ReinerThoni) on February 20, 2012 using Twitter. It was a great 2h session with about 20 people listening in. Couple of questions came also from our audience (Skintrack’s Twitter followers) by which they qualified for a draw to win two light [...]

New prototype boot in Scarpa Alien series

Stano — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:24:29 +0000

It doesn’t happen often that a big company like Scarpa lets slip out a product photo while it is only in a prototype stage. The first Scarpa Alien boot was spotted some years back at skimo world cup competitions, only few approved racers were testing it. Then its carbon cuff version came into being and [...]

Make your own dehydrated food for multi-day ski traverses and backcountry trips

Stano — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:46:43 +0000

For a long time, when it came to multi-day backcountry ski traverses, I thought I have to rely on dried or dry-freeze packaged foods from a store. I won’t mention brands but except one Norwegian and one German brand all the other ones so far tasted the same no matter what kind, and irritated everyone’s [...]