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After an extraordinary long winter with more than average amounts of snow, the Sierra Nevada really lived up to it's name: there was and still is a lot of "Nevada" up in the Sierras and it'll take quite some time to melt it all. One ski resorts for example decided to stay open until August! (click). I was in the Donner Pass...

DG aka "Why Wait!?" and I wanted to go for a "hike" a long time already, but for one and the other reason it never happened yet. Today it did and it was a fun showshoe/back country ski outing on a wonderful spring day in the Sierras. We did the loop from Woods Lake to Round Top and back, like Donnie Darko and I did...

Round Top is on my wish list every season and today I was contemplating to start at Woods Lake, like I did here. However, the last winter storm brought more snow to the already very high snow pack in this area and I was afraid to not even be able to park at the turnout there. Instead I planned to start at the sno-park on Carson...

The start to the winter in California's Sierra Nevada was rather slow, but picked up in mid January and really kicked in in February. In the Donner Pass / Castle Peak area there were more than 7 meters of snowfall in February, with some daily totals of more than a meter. At this point the cumulative snow fall at Donner Pass is...

Oggi mi sono messo d'accordo con un amico Italo/Americano di Boulder, faremo qualcosa di diverso e tranquillo, abbiamo scelto una gita vera di Backcountry, quindi lungo sviluppo, poco dislivello e lungo Boot pack. Partiamo dal East Portal Trailhead al Moffat Tunnel nel James Peak Wilderness area, da qui facciamo un portage per...

Altra uscita solitaria, parto da Silverthorne alle 5:00, direzione i70 uscita Bakerville, da qui non so le condizioni della strada se posso avanzare fino al posteggio avanzato, altrimenti mi toccano 5km in piu. Al posteggio di Bakerville ho dubbi su quale strada prendere, la via sarebbe la Stevens Gulch Road, ma a me sembrano...

Altra giornata, come al solito inizio presto alle 5:00 sono in strada direzione Keystone o meglio Arapahoe Basin, zona sciistica bellissima aperta fino a Luglio, mi porto già in alto perchè vi saranno molte tracce da fare oggi. Dopo la stazione sciistica alle prime curve del Loveland Pass si trova un posteggio a 3300m ca., da...

Dopo il Grizzly sono solo le 8:45, in 5 minuti arrivo a Loveland pass, la prima idea era di fare un bel 4000 semplice senza troppo dislivello e pendenza l'obbiettivo il Mount Sniktau a 4022m, ad ogni modo la facciata nord presenta delle linee di discese ma la salita è praticamente senza neve, quasi tutti partono sci in spalla e...

Since I'm still employed in Switzerland, I get the Swiss Holidays off at work even though I live in California. This has advantages and disadvantages. One of advantages is that on those Swiss Holidays almost nobody has the day off in the US and therefore, it's hardly ever crowded, neither on the roads nor in the mountains. If you...

4 anni fa` sempre in Maggio feci un estensione dei soliti viaggi di lavoro, allora pìu preso dal Trail o meglio dal Fastpacking, organizzai con mio figlio grande (allora ne aveva 16 anni), un viaggio lampo tra Colorado e Utah facendo fastpacking e correndo di giorno nell'Arch National park, Canyoland e Mesa Verde, al ritorno...