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CultureBehind the Winter 2014 Cover
Behind the Winter 2014 Cover
Photographer: Garrett Grove | Skier: Noah Howell | Location: Ruth Gorge, Alaska Not much went as planned in Alaska’s Ruth Gorge last April. An unstable snowpack scuttled the lofty ski plans that photographer Garrett Grove, filmmaker Noah Howell, and ski mountaineers Andrew McLean and Mark Holbrook had made. We called Howell, the subject of Mountain’s Winter 2014 cover shot, to hear more on how they made the best of their expedition anyway. Our main goal was to ski steep chutes. We brought smaller, lighter skis for slicing and dicing. Ropes and harnesses to kick cornices and ski cut stuff. Glacier…...
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CultureAltruism Evolves
Altruism Evolves
1% For The Planet leverages success in the outdoor industry to do more environmental good. Patagonia wants your attention on Black Friday, but instead of firing up the masses to shop, the founding member of the nonprofit 1% for the Planet wants to subvert the holiday shopping tradition. Head to one of the 15 national screenings of “Worn Wear” (or watch it above), a film that celebrates the ability to repair old gear rather than acquire new stuff. While you’re there, enjoy a fine pint from New Belgium—the first brewery to join 1% for the Planet. The Colorado craft beer…...
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CultureRoadside Beautification
Roadside Beautification
Briarcliff Motel | Great Barrington, MA Transforming motor lodges into hip mountain properties. by Susan Reifer Ryan | Courtesy photos Dozens of motels dot the pine-shaded side streets between Heavenly Mountain Resort and Lake Tahoe. Most were built in the motor lodge boom of the 1950s and 60s when gas was cheap and unpretentious adventure by automobile was America’s pastime. Many of South Lake Tahoe’s classics are either inadvertently kitschy or just plain tired. But where most people saw dreary, Deb Pierrel, 51, and Katy Donoghue, 33, saw opportunity. The two Mammoth Lakes residents looked at 40 properties in the…...
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BikeNever Die Alone
Never Die Alone
The new personal locator beacons. By Susan Reifer Ryan | Photograph by Kevin Steel When the pilot of the 1961 de Havilland Beaver bush plane dropped our party of nine mountain bikers in the wilderness of British Columbia’s South Chilcotin Mountains, we thought we’d come well prepared. In addition to our first aid kit, we’d packed plenty of food, water, extra clothes, tools, and bike parts. We even remembered to relay our plans to a third party in case we didn’t make it out on schedule. Then one biker tipped from the narrow singletrack onto a jagged stump, peeling back…...
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EnvironmentBreaking News: Stand up paddleboarding isn’t totally friggin’ lame.
Breaking News: Stand up paddleboarding isn’t totally friggin’ lame.
Lake Tahoe is the hottest alpine paddleboarding destination since—we have no idea. By Paul Tolmé | Photo by Ryan Salm It’s a radiant summer day in South Lake Tahoe and beefy tanned dudes in board shorts, fit chicks in bikinis with rippling skier’s quads, senior citizens slathered with sunscreen, and parents with wobbly toddlers crowd the beach. The three-day festival known as Race the Lake of the Sky has drawn some of the world’s top stand up paddleboard racers and thousands of spectators. The music is pumping. It could be a scene from SoCal, but for the snow-capped peaks, thin clean air, and total…...
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CultureFun Facts with El Capitán
Fun Facts with El Capitán
Need to know—because ignorance ain’t bliss. By Tim Neville | Photo by Ian Shive El Cap, in Yosemite National Park, is one of the most photographed and climbed rocks in the world, but the Chief still holds a few surprises. Here’s what you may not know about America’s greatest big wall. A lonely 80-foot-high ponderosa—the El Cap tree—somehow clings to the granite just below the North America Wall about 400 feet (or four pitches) up the face. It’s the only big tree on the face of the monolith. Despite the sheer, seemingly inhospitable terrain, the cracks and ledges are an…...
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CulturePredatory Love
Predatory Love
By Tracy Ross | Photograph by Ray Rafiti The last time I saw Gordon Haber alive we were hiking through a wildlife closure in Denali National Park. It wasn’t just any closure, but his, Haber’s. A self-proclaimed “wildlife scientist,” as opposed to wildlife biologist, Haber studied Denali wolves—especially the Toklat pack—for 40 years. He was big, gruff, greying, and scary, in part because he was also silly. The forest we hiked through was prime grizzly habitat, so he was doing his best Johnny Cash “Hey Bear.” Shouting, singing, “Hey Bear,” in Johnny Cash baritone. I trailed behind, videotaping with my cell…...
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EnvironmentCircling Ravens
Circling Ravens
The Western Arctic Caribou Herd migrating in the Utukok Uplands. Floating through the nation’s biggest and most endangered wild place. By Molly Loomis | Photographs by Patrick J. Endres I hear the bleating as our raft rounds a long lazy bend in the Utukok River. The distressed, desperate call comes from a baby caribou stranded on a small rock island midstream. Seated next to me is Joel Berger, a wildlife biologist. He estimates the calf is three days old. The cloudless sky is busy with ravens soaring in concentric circles. A sign of carrion. On the far bank we spot the white rump of a…...
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BikeSummer 2013
Summer 2013
A letter from editor Marc Peruzzi introduces the Summer 2013 issue of Mountain magazine. features Happy Sisyphus Armed with doughnuts and cheap bourbon, two men leave the Seattle suburbs to bike 92 miles, climb 9,000 feet, and cross a glacier in the dark. Home? Start running. It’s 108 miles. David Hanson reports on the Triple Threat. Sierra Marinade Lee Cohen tours the granite summits and crystal lakes of the Sierra, collecting frames of the California high country and notes on its cast of characters. Angel of the Nine Fingers If you lose a wedding band, a boat, or a body in the…...
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CultureTINY
TINY
The average home size in the U.S. has doubled since 1970. “TINY” follows one man’s journey to save time and money while living simply in a small space at home in the mountains of Colorado. Watch the trailer above, and find out more information on a showing near you at tiny-themovie.com....
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Culture
Gregg Treinish, A MoveShake Story
Gregg Treinish, A MoveShake Story
Gregg Treinish, the founder of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, takes viewers on a journey as he searches for balance and considers the importance of relationships in leading change. For more, check out his 2011 Mountain Advocate essay. ...
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CultureBest of Mountainfilm
Best of Mountainfilm
Click on the photo above to launch a gallery. At the edges of Telluride, Colorado, the land juts skyward through aspen groves and bands of rock. A stunning horseshoe of cliffs punctuated by the spray and tremor of Bridal Veil Falls determines the town’s boundaries. It’s an inspired location for the premier mountain film festival in the United States, Telluride Mountainfilm, which took place over Memorial Day weekend. Every spring for 35 years, filmmakers, professional outdoor athletes, and ordinary mountain enthusiasts have made the pilgrimage to Mountainfilm. Here you’re just as likely to share in films and discussions…...
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CultureYosemite Time Travel
Yosemite Time Travel
Click on the image above for a photo gallery. I took these photos from the top of Sentinel Dome. From there you get a 360-degree view of Yosemite. Imagine a younger me, studying the photography greats in a library in Evanston, Illinois. The dead tree you see here in the foreground is the same Jeffrey Pine made famous by Ansel Adams. To bring a camera here was something of a pilgrimage for me. I stood in the man’s footprints under failing light and lengthening shadows, and as the sky bruised, I drank wine that came in a crushable, cardboard…...
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Culture
Down The Line
Down The Line
Canyoneering adventures have long been a staple in Utah, but British Columbia? “Down The Line” is a new film from Francois-Xavier De Ruydts that chronicles the first descents of lush green canyons found around Squamish. Watch the trailer above and visit deruydtsphotography.com to see more of the filmmaker’s work....
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CultureMountain Magazine Partners with GoPro Mountain Games
Mountain Magazine Partners with GoPro Mountain Games
Photo by Zach Mahone (BOULDER, CO) May 9, 2013 — Mountain Media, publishers of Mountain magazine, announces a new partnership with the Vail Valley Foundation and the GoPro Mountain Games—a four-day outdoor gala featuring competitions, concerts, films, and fast moving rivers of tantalizingly delicious craft beer (we’ll be sure to investigate). As an official media partner, Mountain will promote the events on mountainonline.com and provide on-the-ground coverage from June 6 to 9. “The GoPro Mountain Games are the embodiment of our magazine,” says Mountain Media Publisher Jamie Pentz. “This celebration of the mountain lifestyle mirrors our passions and…...
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BikePosted: Keep Rolling
Posted: Keep Rolling
Vermont landowners: Duane, Adam, and Hazel Howard. Private landowners open up access to mountain bikers, climbers, fly fishers, and hikers. Story and photographs by Berne Broudy Singletrack climbs steeply from my backdoor in Richmond, Vermont. I pedal by spindly fir trees before rolling over a rocky ledge. White, star-shaped and pink-veined morning glories rise from the cold spring dirt. I roll uphill rattling over carefully placed pallet bridges and wind beneath a web of blue plastic sap lines strung tree to tree. Roger Cochran, one of four neighbors whose land this trail crosses, has kindly installed the lines high enough…...
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EnvironmentThe Water Makers
The Water Makers
Story by David Hanson and Nick Silverman | Photographs by David Hanson I’ve always loved the story of John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts taking off for the Sea of Cortez in 1940. Steinbeck and Ricketts, a marine biologist, living aboard a 75-foot sardine boat, scouring the eastern Baja shoreline, immersing themselves in the physicality of science. In the intro to The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck writes of the different ways to experience the world. One can analyze, chart, and name in a laboratory, or one can wander into the tide pools and feel the Mexican sierra in the line cutting through…...
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CultureMTN Advocate: 1% for the Planet
MTN Advocate: 1% for the Planet
Photograph by Mike Riddle We give the Mountain pulpit to Terry Kellogg, CEO of 1% for the Planet. I was born and raised in rural Vermont, on land that backed up to endless open space. I could run or ride from our home through dense woods to a river that we’d float in summer and cross-country ski in winter—gliding all the way to Lake Champlain. My dad raced Nordic in the 1968 Olympics and spent his time maintaining the Appalachian Mountain Club’s huts in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. We spent a lot of time outdoors. But he also worked for IBM, and…...
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