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Part 3: The Mindset Shift

Part three of our three-part series on big mountain mindsets: Choosing partners, building habits, and remaining diligent.

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Billy Haas

The mindset shifted: Brendan O’Neill in a large mountain theater. Photo: Adam Fabrikant

The mindset shifted: Brendan O’Neill in a large mountain theater. Photo: Adam Fabrikant

This summer, as part of a larger project exploring the evolution of expeditionary skiing and riding, we connected with Haas, a THR founder/contributor, to discuss certain aspects of the big mountain scene. In part one of our conversation, which can be found here, we frame what Haas refers to as a mindset shift when thinking about and entering…

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  1. Peter Vordenberg

    These are articles really set THR apart. Thanks!

  2. Beacon.shovel.bearspray

    Man, reading about the “Time for Tuckerman” website send me into a rabbit hole of memories I had all but forgotten. Time to visit the wayback machine and see if I can dig up some of my posts from the early 2000s there- that really is where it all started for me in high school and I had totally forgotten about it.

  3. Kam DH

    I wish I had read about the runs in Tucks before going with my buddy Ben at the end of college. He had ski bummed out west for a few seasons and was the “leader”. We had no axes or crampons and climbed straight into one of the Chute variations (I had to just look up the name of the route, I think it was the lookers left one). I remember booting up the steep terrain holding my skis horizontally to secure myself. There was a cliff below and a gnarly moat and that thrill and focus of being in the no-fall zone. We skied the line in good corn and also the Left Gully in nice conditions, almost bumped out I think.

    Then we had a close call skiing out the riverbed below the bowl. We stopped when we heard water under the snow, looked back at our tracks, and watched them collapse into a torrent. Booked it out of there back to the trail in a hurry.

    The mindset didn’t shift before the trip… we didn’t do the homework, that’s for sure!

    I feel like I should go back and do it right.

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