The Pathogen Puzzle: A Healthy Immune System is the Keystone!
I like to refer to pathogens as a puzzle. While it has been historically accurate that if you don’t have all the pieces you can’t get infected; the coronavirus is an exception. More on this latter in this blog. Regardless, if you understand how the puzzle works you...
Snowpack Update – December 7, 2019 – East Breccia / Togwotee Pass Area
Today we went back out to the Togwotee Pass area in an effort to trend the characteristics of the facet layer that was created during and extended window of high pressure in November. While we expected to get lower test scores than last week, we had no expectations...
Snowpack Update – Nov. 30, 2019 – Togwotee – East Breccia
Understanding What's Under Our Skis & How to Manage the Risks Associated With It As hard as it may be to believe, ski season in the backcountry is not really here yet. What I mean, is while the snow is piling up in the backcountry the early season hazards...
How do you make Magic?
There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal. Karyn Kusama My travel in the mountains mimics my life...
Patient Packaging in the Wilderness Environment
Patient care techniques can have many different outcomes in regards to training, experience and applications used by the provider. In the wilderness environment this is seen during the transfer of care between, recreationalists to guides and guides to organized Search...
Helmets?
You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone. Jon Gruden You can wear one or not. Although the jury is in. Helmets help reduce...
A Closer Look at Head Injuries
When individuals with head injuries develop swelling on the brain ? it is referred to as intracranial pressure (ICP). ICP provides two life threatening problems. It reduces oxygen permeation to the cells of the brain and it inhibits the function of the brain...
What is your recipe to Do More?
When I think of how to Do More I’m really thinking, how do I keep doing what I do? Having made a career in the out of doors, these are the questions I have asked myself over the years: How do I keep things fresh? How do I make this all sustainable? As a guide,...
What are you running from?
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - - H. P. Lovecraft - - Early in my climbing career I was faced with fear…the fear of falling. It was unknown to me as I had never taken a fall or a...
A few backcountry basics I think we can all agree on!
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do." -Potter Stewart- The fact of the reality is that our backcountry trailheads are getting busier...and no amount of complaining is going to change it. Backcountry Skiing is a...