Pan-Pacific Adventure part 2: small boats in big seas! Written by Adam    Tuesday, 09 March 2010 Taking the Sette across the Central Pacific was a fun trip, but the real adventure began once we arrived in Guam. Allan, Mark, and I bid farewell to the rest of our colleagues and traded our 224’ ship for a 19’ Boston Whaler. The mission was the same; find, photograph, and biopsy cetaceans in order to get a feeling for what was out there. The Yurt Written by Sam    Monday, 01 March 2010 In order to maintain a reasonable level of sanity this season, it’s been important for me to stay mobile. Following excursions to Jackson Hole and Utah in recent weeks, I decided that it was time to work a new destination into the rotation. Five enthusiastic Bridger Bowl skiers loaded up at 0430 in the morning and made the journey to a yurt in the Swan Range near Seeley Lake, Montana.

Pan Pacific Adventure Part 1: Honolulu to Guam Written by Adam    Tuesday, 23 February 2010 By mid-January the winter situation in the PNW was dire. No new snow, lots of rain, and intermittent ice made for a lot of unhappy snow sliders, myself included. The even sadder thing was that there was no place in the Western US or Canada that was snowy enough to inspire visiting. Perhaps it was time to switch gears altogether, knowing that if I left winter it would almost certainly snow as soon as I left. The search for snow Written by Sam    Sunday, 31 January 2010 It’s the end of January and ski season continues to plod along in Southwest Montana. We have not been fortunate enough to receive any type of consistent snowfall lately, but the coverage is adequate to ski the majority of the lines at Bridger Bowl. Robb Gaffney recently made the journey from Tahoe to visit his family and partake in a classic Bozeman hardpack cycle. The Life Aquatic in Whistler, BC Written by Adam    Sunday, 24 January 2010 For a die-hard skier, an extended forecast of “100% chance of rain” for your local ski area is infuriating. This was the forecast I was facing, so it was time to leave again. Where to this time? Teton Pass Written by Sam    Sunday, 10 January 2010 For whatever combination of reasons, the Western US has been experiencing a slow start to the 2010 ski season. Shallow snowpacks and deep instability are a common theme in the Northern Rockies, but I needed to venture out and do some exploring for myself. Long time Bridger Bowl local turned road warrior Luke Driessen was headed on a mission to Teton Pass and needed an accomplice. Considering the fact that I had a grand total of zero obligations in Bozeman I joined in on the fun.