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Skin track at 5:00am
Steve is a professional photographer. He needed to do a shoot for Powder magazine on the Pfeifferhorn. The Pfeifferhorn is one of the worlds true horns. It is known on most maps as the Little Matterhorn. You must skin, climb and rappel in order to summit and descend the peak. There were five of us in all that made the trip.
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After skinning and climbing for quite some time, we finally caught our first view of the Pfeifferhorn. Steve and I commented that this view was worth the wrath of Myranda if Weston had in fact not gone back to sleep. From here, we skinned a little further and then removed our skis for the final ascent up to the peak.
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This is where the ice axe came in handy. A slip on this steep slope will send you along way down.
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On our way to the top. It was amazing to look back and see where we'd come from. Like I said, you wouldn't want to fall here!
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Once at the top (elevation 11,326), I got into my best mountaineering pose for the camera. You also get good service here... so I sent Myranda a picture text.
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From the top you rappel into a steep chute. You then ski the chute for several hundred feet until it chokes off and cliffs out. Then you must rappel out of the chute. From there you can ski the apron out. What a blast. With all the photography etc. It took us the entire day to tour this. I didn't return home until 6:00pm.
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One last look back at the peak we just conquered. Thanks for the invite Steve.
And fyi... no, I could not walk the next day... too sore! But still it was worth it.
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10 comments:
What a nice wife you have to let you do something like that-with my husbands luck he would have killed himself! Great pics though!-I have anxiety just looking at them.
Wow...I like how you roll old timer!
Wow, that is pretty impressive. That is one of those trips that you see on the Discovery Channel and can't figure out who on earth would actually risk their lives doing such an expedition. Well, I guess I know...the extremists!! It looks awesome.
Wow, you are way hard core!
Those are some sweet pics, Dave and I are sooo jealous!
Extremely knarly man, but now it is time to get serious and a few priorities strait. You need a new motorcycle. Specs on the bike are; #1. Must be fast. This includes a fast color, i.e. Red is the fastest color out there, also other fast colors are orange, and pink or and shade of each. #2. Follow the rules of #1 because the color is the most important anything on a motorcycle. Everything really doesn't matter.
Nate Johnson left this amazing post.
First thought--Mandy do you have something to share with me? Nothing here. I hope I dont have to see you in a few weeks.
But yeah we cant make it up there this weekend, we wish we were. The family is still planning on doing it next weekened but Nate has a ski comp at snowbird and D & A will be coming back. We should all get together. Have fun up there!
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Hey Mandy I tagged you. Just go to my blog and see what you need to do.
Very convenient that we never see your "face", in fact, I'm the guy standing behind you in that other mask and coat!
I love and miss you.
How was snow basin? We are so sad we couldnt make it up there. Post some pics of the skiing! I hope it was good!
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