Author Archive
Why We Backcountry Ski
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007This is how it works. Dudes go backcountry skiing in Rocky Mountain National Park. Dudes reach bottom of tour, flex thier muscles, turn off their transcievers… and need to move out of the way of gang of teenage girls in shorts and tank tops traipsing through the woods. This really is the kind of stuff […]
Abandon All Hope Ye Print Publishers
Monday, February 26th, 2007“Guarda quel grande che vene.” -Dante on Jason in Inferno, Canto 18 (in which Dante encounters the fradulent sinners) People (especially those lost souls who contributed to the final issue) keep asking what happened to Hooked. The Reaper has the answer. And a question/command: “Who will be next?” That’s the magazine biz, right boys? On […]
Light in the Heart of Darkness
Saturday, February 24th, 2007The latest Kayak Session is on newsstands with a profile I wrote on kayaking doctor Jessie Stone. Jessie called me back in the fall and asked if I would write the piece on her for the magazine which is published by Philippe Doux in Lyons, France. It was an honor. Jessie is fighting malaria with […]
Colorado Trail in Style
Saturday, February 24th, 2007In September, I spent three days riding about 100 miles of high-alpine singletrack on the Colorado Trail for a feature that will run in Adventure Cyclist this fall. The idea was the carry the few things we needed in a small pack, ride hard (we topped over three passes higher than 11,500-feet), and spend nights […]
Cape Cod and My Dad’s Dominance
Saturday, July 8th, 2006Radha, Isa and I spent a week on Cape Cod with Dad, Mom, Max and Erin in mid July. Dad made fools out of Max and I and just about everyone else on the beach, catching fish after fish while Max and I got more or less skunked. Here’s one of two pathetic stripers I […]
Krakow Photos
Friday, June 9th, 2006Click for photos from Krakow and the poetry conference.
News
Friday, June 9th, 20062/07 On newsstands: stories in Powder, Canoe & Kayak, Big Sky Journal >> 11/06 Schnitzspahn named project editor for OR Show Dailies; ski and backcountry editor for SIA SnowPress >> 7/06 Photos posted from 2006 Krakow Poetry Conference >> 4/06 “Spectra” noted in Best American Essays 2005
Our “Angel”
Friday, June 9th, 2006Presenting Isa Leigh Schnitzspahn…