Alpine Style

Getting up early is worth it. Doug Sproul savors a sunrise from Perfect Peak, in the Selkirk Mountains. The day began at a Sorcerer Lodge, and we would go on to ski tour over 3000m that day, of perfect powder above a sea of clouds.

Doug Sproul rips off his skins and makes a speedy transition from skinning to skiing, in anticipation of the champagne powder below. Perfect Pass, Selkirk Mountains B.C. (near Sorcerer Lodge)

Doug Sproul dropping in to another blissful run near Sorcerer Lodge, in the Selkirk Range, B.C.

Dave Gauley is hand-stacking his up the Split Beaver. Little Smoke Bluffs, Squamish B.C.

Andrew Wexler getting face shots one particularilly deep stormy day of ski touring on Ross Peak, Rogers Pass B.C.

Josh Wharton and his partner Bean Bowers (just barely visible) are making the first free ascent of the Casarotto Pillar, Cerro Fitz Roy, Patagonia. Crystal Davis-Robbins and I also made a successful ascent of this sought after, but rarely completed Patagonian classic. A better alpine rock route would be hard to imagine!

It's hard to beat a bluebird day in Patagonia. The Torre Glacier and the Cerro Torre group from the summit of Aguja Rafael.

Johny Franko enjoys an 80 cm dump, as he drops into the exit couloir of Envers de Plan, Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France.