Here in western CO, we are lucky enough to have a vast network of backcountry huts to ski to for overnight adventures. In the case of the Shrine Mountain Inn where we went at the beginning of the month for a holiday retreat, “backcountry hut” means beautiful log cabin complete with bathtub, sauna, running water, [...]
Posts under ‘Backbone Adventures’
Racking up the Miles
Fall season is here and it is go time to make it happen for Winter 2010 and Spring 2011. Looking at the recent travel log (for work and fun) from Backbone it is something like this: Expo East in Boston, 4 Pass Loop, Ventura, Seattle X2, NYC X2, OIA in Asheville, the Gunks, Santa Barbara, [...]
Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America
A few years back, Backbone was promoting Ski the 14ers book, by Chris Davenport and Art Burrows. Ski the 14ers was the culmination of Dav’s epic goal of skiing all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000′ peaks in a year. For you ski historians out there Lou Dawson was the first person to complete this task, in [...]
Back For More
It’s harvest time in New Mexico and Jen and I headed to Santa Fe for our friends’ wedding and a secret mission to return home with some of the finest green chile offered up by the “Land of Enchantment.” One of its most defining characteristics is the dominance of the New Mexican chile—in red and [...]
Meet Our Newest Hire-The Swede
In any good James Bond movie, everyone has the perfect alias. Goldfinger, Le Chiffre, Largo, Mr. Big. They have swaggers, and expensive shoes, greased hair and a quiver of weapons. They squint their eyes, travel with an entourage, and drive fancy cars. Well folks, we have our own new mysterious character, Niklas Brosnan, aka. The [...]
Notes from the Field
There is commentary in the media that points to an acceleration of business and life in general. Crowd-sourced sharing of content and ideas manifested in socially driven community based applications…oh, goodness, is that comprehensible, let alone true? While there is plenty of evidence that points to this general ‘hastening’ of business; we find that a [...]
Lucky 13
As Backbone nears its 13th Anniversary – we took some time out for our mid year reviews and gathered the crew for a few days of fun, sun, bike rides and rivers here in Carbondale. Open table discussions, ping pong, New Belgium beer and evening bike rides kicked things off, followed by a run down [...]
Hey SKI Magazine, You Missed A Spot
This month, Ski magazine’s online website posted a slideshow of the Ten Best Jobs in the Ski Industry. They spotlighted Derek Gustafson, a product developer for one of our longest standing clients, Black Diamond. They even chose a photo of a few of our good friends and ski industry writers, Frederick Reimers and Drew Pogge [...]
Just In…
Typical spring travel and excitement here at Backbone. Trips to visit clients and sales meetings abound. Dax, JLD, Kara and Fielding are in Santa Fe visiting Outside Mag and the weekend here holds promise for skiing and biking. Arriving here at Backbone are three sweet cruisers from New Belgium and a little piece in Outside [...]
Quality of Life
Spring in the Rockies is an exercise in patience. Weather is a wild card, and whether you are waiting for single track to dry or for a ski line to come into condition you learn that to achieve your goals you have to watch and wait rather than plan too far ahead. Sometimes it is [...]
