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June 20, 2008

Lou Dawson’s Backcountry Skiing Blog

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Written by: Janne Niini
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Wildsnow by Lou Dawson is all about human powered backcountry skiing. So, no lifts, no helis, no sleds…up you go – by your own foot. How cool is that?

And if you don’t happen to know the man, here is a short description taken from his site. Pretty hard to deny Lou’s auctority in his field, isn’t it?:

Dawson is the first man to have skied down all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks. His grand adventure began with a ski descent of Castle Peak in 1978. He added a few others to his list, then in 1987 he set out in earnest to ski them all. He accomplished his goal in May 1991 with a 16 mile, 16 hour ascent and ski of Kit Carson Peak in the Sangre de Cristo range of southern Colorado. A few of the “fourteeners” offer wide and gentle ski slopes, on others, Dawson contended with pitches of 45 to 60 degrees.

That being said, the site offers some really good information about the ski randonnee gear, backcountry tips and of course great articles of anything related to ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing.

I especially find these info “packages” very useful (another example how a blog can be really helpful and offering valuable information for the reader!):

Dynafit Info

Fritschi info

Binding Mounting Instructions

Marker Duke info

Gear weights

(By the way check our earlier articles about the Duke and How-to Decide Right Binding Mounting Location on Today’s Skis)

And how about Old Backcountry Gear Ski Museum? Must be a ski-gear geeks’s heaven!

All in all, Lou’s blog is clearly one of the most respectable ski blogs of the whole internet. I think I could spend days with all the great archive content! And I am sure I will be back checking out Lou’s article frequently in the near future.

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About the Author

Janne Niini
I am a former (not-so-competitive) mogul-skier who nowadays enjoy many aspects of snow-gliding: alpine, telemarking and occasional snowboarding too. I have two small daughters and try to ski with them as often as possible.




 
 

 
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