Late spring/early summer riding, one of the many great reasons to live in the northwest. So my day last Thursday: woke up and went to my paying job (no that's not working for Karakoram, yet :) ), cruised home at 5pm, met up with Aaron and headed up to Silver Peak to hit up the last of the late season up at the pass, at the trail head by 6:30pm a short hike to the snow before we can start skinning scoped the lines headed up the ridge dropped the west face down to Annette Lake and hit some killer

A couple weeks ago JimW invited Tyler and me to join the California splitboard crew on their trip to Shasta.   We jumped at the opportunity to check out a little more of the California split scene and also invited Russell to join.  50+ emails later the plan on where we were touring was still in flux, but we hit the road anyway. We just finished our new crampon concept around 5 pm Thursday and were looking forward to testing them out on the frozen late spring corn.  Despite finishing building the prototype crampon and hoping to be in bed at