Lou grew up in a haze of hippiedom, moving from the east to Texas to Colorado. He highlights the imagination, insecurity, excitement, and dismay in a counterculture beatnik upbringing and recounts stories of Aspen before its glam heyday. Challenges at home fueled a drive towards the outdoors, a theme carried through his story. The high country finds him as much as he finds it.
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Thoughts on the MSR cooking pot recall, and why Alex Lee will stay the course with his Reactor stove and pot.
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Lacking a local on-piste ski area to “uphill,” no problem: Alex Lee makes the training work in a terrain and conditions smörgåsbord.
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I moved to Colorado in 2010. I was invincible, as all boys in their 20s are. When a friend asked if I would do the Grand Traverse with him, I said sure without having any real sense of what I’d signed up for. K2 Coombacks and a 4-buckle boot worked great skiing couloirs in Rocky Mountain National Park, so I figured they’d surely be fine… I left Crested Butte a ski mountaineer, 40 miles later I skied into Aspen a rando racer. Man did it hurt, but I was hooked. Skis got smaller, boots got lighter, eventually I found myself in spandex.
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A couple weeks back I wore running shoes on Chugach trails, went ice skating, and ignored the broken snow blower in my garage. It was, up to then, a relatively dry fall in the Chugach.
Then it dumped three feet of snow in 36 hours.
El Niño
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