Couloir of the Month

Crossman Couloir. Coulior of the Month Backcountry Magazine.
Volume 14 Issuue 46 December 2008

New Years

Hope that a new year brings a return of pow like this for all.

This is what I've waited years for.

Early this morning at the park and ride in Montpelier. Looks like Alta???

It's been deep!!! This is a shot of me that Brian Mohr posted on his web site.
This was a couple of days ago and it's snowed yesterday and all last night.

It's been Dumping

The walk ways at Wardle's tonigh.
The snows getting hard to get over the banks.





Back at the Lewis House the snow has also really added up.



It's been looking a lot like Alta these past couple days.

It's was a great morning of skiing at Mad River. But the winds started to blow around 1:00 and first shut down the single and soon after the double chair as well.
I packed up and headed to Wardle's to check on him and his knee. He blew his ACL yesterday skiing with Silas, Lars, and I in Octo's garnden. Or it might of been more three cliffs area.
But anyways we send him our love.

Pow day

Herer's a photo no ones seen.

I haven't gotten any pics from today yet but it was a great day.

Blower over the head powder.

I'll post some photos on as Brian sends me some.

Eastern Skiing

A little ealy season skiing at my Home Mountain.

This is the newest chair at Mad River. Only mountain with a new single chair and a quad urinal.

This is the new snow when we got back from the mountain today. Tomorrow is going to be east coast epic.

East Coast Quickies

Today after working on packing the truck and Fireball, Britt and I went for a short skin. Up Paine Mountain. It's a small peak between Berlin and Northfeild. It was a 4x4 road good for a burn when I was in high school. Now It's turned into a park with winter and summer trails.

At the top of our skin getting ready for some low angle fun.

R.B. Cameron, a friend and coworker, and I, as I say good by to him. He's a real tree expert. He's had his own tree company for longer then I've been breathing. We had a good summer and I've learned a lot.

Thats about all I've got to say about that. (For now)

Road Ready???

Photo of the day at Mad River Glen Opening day, by Brian Mohr

Heres this winters set up. It's been to cold and wet to put the Sponsor Logos on but it's starting to look good on the inside.


The fireball now has a 12" sub, JBL, Infinity, and Sony 10 disc changer.
This will rock me to sleep on the cold lonely nights

I'll be leaving soon as the roads get cleaned up and the storms pass.

I'm hoping Twitch-E can wait for me to show up at the DPH to tune his skis. And Bring out a wood stove I have for him.

The Fireball. I was not able to find the real vin # so the Vermont DMV gave me a new vin.

I looked up the modle # on the net and it looks to be a mid 50s camper.

Top of the line in it's time.

More space then I really need. It has for beds a three burner stove and a small oven.

It's been a fun fixer uper.

We are still getting pow here in Vermont. Hope to ski again at Mad River Glen.

Hey all out there. My good friend Harley that I do Tree work for set up this Blog for me.

I will be able to up date my friends, family, and hopefull fans.

HA HA.

Not sure how this works yet but a few good day playing around and i'll see if it works out.

Anyways I'm still in Vermont and have been skiing at Mad River Glen. Helping with the patrol.

I was going to leave VT monday but there has been some change of plans.

I'll let you know when I'm leaving.

The Fireball is road ready and I'll post some pic soon.

This is a trip I took to Austria with some other Telemark Athletes last year for a Tele Fest and a Tele Cross. (JT Robinson, Zack Houston, Jon Gurry, and Photographer Steve Lloyd). We made our way from Salt Lake City to Austria and this Coulior was one of the runs I skied on my first day.

It was a first descent. The guys we skied with have grown up in this town (Lothar Hofer-guide for this years trip, and Martin Sochor) They have their own Video Production called Y Dream.

They are the guys that pointed out the Coulior and told me it had never been skied.

When they pointed out the shot I immediatly wanted to ski it. The rest of the crew didn't want to get into it so we skied some other faces and as the day's end was nearing I told everyone I wanted to ski that Coulior. I asked around who wanted to be my side kick, but no one wanted to, I talked JT into it and we put our skins on and started up. We got to the top Zack, Martin, and Steve where ready to shoot it.

I skied it first. It was steep and got really narrow at one point (about 170 cm). JT went next and made it to the bottom and we traversed around the backside of the moutain and back to the base area.

When we returned, Lothar and Martin aked me what I wanted to name it.

I asked them why. They told me they have been looking at it for years and it had never been skied. It is now know as Crossman Coulior.

It is off the back side of Loser Mountain Pronounced [lo:zer] its in Ausseerland Austria.

Part of the Totes Gebirge Range