North Cascades Window Shopping

Optimizing positional skiing. Photo: Sam Chaneles

It’s 5:30 a.m., and I can’t lay awake in the mid any longer. A fitful night disrupted by periodic and frightful gazes at my watch has expired. I wiggle in my sleeping bag, gathering the various clothes and batteries stuffed about. Trying not to wake Lane and Nick, I slide over the semi-deflated sleeping pad…

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  1. Will Tabor

    If you don’t know who the steep skiing royalty of WA, Sky Sjue, is, I suggest you get inspired. skisickness.com

    1. Samuel Chaneles

      Will, add Dan Helmstadter’s SummitPost ski resume to that list 😉 And the Hummel chronologies in Cascade Classics and Cascade Crusades.

      1. Will Tabor

        I was thinking about Dan as well! The man opened more lines on Shuksan than most people ever ski.

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