Euphoria at White Pass - spring skiing at its finest!

Tumac Mountain, a young volcano North of White Pass

It’s spring, but it can be hard to tell when you’re skiing in the Pacific Northwest right now! Powder in the morning and conditions that remain great throughout the day - crazy when you think back to this time last year when it felt like the middle of summer! White Pass still wears it’s lush coat of deep snow, so deep that the protective padding on the lift poles is entirely submerged! It is a good to see such a robust snowpack after the last few years fraught with drought and fires. It is immensely reassuring to know that the mountains are well stocked and that the retreat of the glaciers might be slowed, if only briefly.

Be sure and watch my White Pass skiing adventure video - I finally got up the courage to film with my DJI Osmo gimbal camera while skiing, which made things a lot more exciting than previous skiing videos that I've made!

UST Hex Tarp Review

I have a habit of going camping in the very worst weather possible, and last week, backpacking on the Olympic coast was no exception. Normally, foul weather camping means the utter misery of cooking and eating dinner in the pouring rain. This time, though, I brought along the Hex Tarp by Ultimate Survival Technologies, hoping to be able to eat a bagel without it getting soaked in a sudden downpour.