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Acadian driftwood 🌞 🌝

A few highlights of the best week of my summer. Biking, running, foraging, climbing, paddling, connecting and reconnecting.

We should all be so lucky 💗

What two traits make for the best partner in high risk activity?

I got into this conversation the other day with and outside of and the dialogue that followed was really insightful. Curious to hear your thoughts 🤔

Triggered (did not get caught in) my biggest avalanche of my 18 year backcountry travel career in British Columbia yesterday. !Warning geek alert! The slab was about 50-60cm of cross loaded snow sitting on a convex roll over. The intended decent was on the other side of the “skillet” of snow at the top of the line and sat on a known persistent weak layer from late November. To get across I traveled as fast as the pitch would allow, and as close to the corniced north face to not be afraid of that weakness. Mid traverse, a subtle ridge mid crossing, functioned as a trigger point about 10 feet downslope of my traverse. The slide ran to the valley bottom, bent over small trees and would be graded size 3.

Happy solstice everyone. You included. 🫵🏻

Keepin spirits high over here in Little Cottonwood!