Cascade Summit
Mt. Baker, Washington, United States
Posted by Cameron on 22 August 2016
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When I got the invite to go back to the Pacific Northwest and climb Mt. Baker, I was ecstatic. I’ve done a bit of mountaineering in the northern Cascades and have played on the slopes of Mt. Baker in the past but had never been to the top. The trip was with MSR to check out their spring 2017 product line including a number of new tents, cooking utensils, water filtration and stoves. It was the perfect setting.
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San Juan Spring Ski
Mt. Sneffels, San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Posted by Cameron on 21 May 2016
After missing one of Colorado’s better ski seasons this winter, I returned from Finland to receive an invite to head to the SW corner of the state, where the snow is nearly always abundant, for a spring ski trip. It’s a long drive, but it’s usually totally worth it.
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I love to travel, but I really love to travel for long perids and to have a strong education component mixed in. Here’s a quick recap of a program I got hired to help with taking 20 Principia College students to Finland for about two months. They were mostly education students and the abroad focused on the Finnish Education system as well as their sustainability efforts. We traveled nearly the whole length of Finland and spent a good amount of time in the Arctic. It was a dream come true.
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Fickle Mountains
Whitetail Peak, Beartooth Range, Red Lodge, Montana, United States
Posted by Cameron on 31 August 2015
Not ten minutes into the trail and suddenly we were forced to retreat into our rain coats. Then, to further impede our progress, lightning flash and thunder strikes right over our heads pushed us to find some shelter amongst the sparse clumps of standing trees. In 2008, the human ignited Cascade fire ripped through here burning over 10,000 acres. Charred bits still peak through the foliage that has since grown back and we have plenty of time to ponder the lightning over our head and the fire it can cause as we wait for the storm to pass. Sixty percent of the fires in the Beartooths are caused by lightning strike.
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No Bears in BC
Bella Coola, Canada
Posted by Cameron on 17 August 2015
While I spent most of my teen years in the Pacific Northwest, my only real foray into British Columbia was up to Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler a few times. This time, I got to go a little further north. About half way between Washington State and Alaska lies the beautiful Bella Coola Valley. It’s at the end of a 70-mile fjord and the mountains continue to climb from there.
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Tags: backpacking, camping, river, travel, trekking, waterfall Posted in Air, Blog, Earth, Hike, North America, Photography, Raft, Story, Water | 1 Comment »
I’m not much of a beach person. Sure, I beach bummed it a bit in San Diego before moving to Colorado, but I was never passionate about the beach. But Bermuda was different. Instead of just lounging around we had a lot of fun exploring the island in some creative and fun ways.
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First Tour of 2015
Guinn/Arestua Hut, Roosevelt National Forest, Eldora, Colorado, United States
Posted by Cameron on 4 January 2015
This was a great day trip out to Guinn Hut. We got a few turns in on our way down to Yankee Doodle Lake then skied out. The snow was amazing and the company was a fun bunch of folks organized by Dave.
Here’s hoping I’m establishing an obtainable new years resolution by trying to get images and video posted more quickly after getting back from a trip.
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Santa Ski
Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
Posted by Cameron on 23 December 2014
From my latest assignment with Elevation Outdoors Magazine:
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GoPro Mtn Games 2014
Vail, Colorado, United States
Posted by Cameron on 25 August 2014
I’ve been having a bunch of fun making Instagram videos of late. I would say “quick” Instagram videos, but I don’t always turn them around as fast as I’d like. After the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail I had a bunch of footage after competing in three different events. We started the day paddling down Gore Creek. I managed to get a video of that published shortly after the weekend, but not the videos of the Bad Ass Dash obstacle course or the XC Mountain Bike race. Finally, those are done and if you didn’t catch them on Instagram, I’ve compiled the three into a YouTube video here:
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On The Steep
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, United States
Posted by Cameron on 14 March 2014
I’m far from being an expert skier, despite skiing expert runs at ski areas. I’m at that point in my skiing where it takes a lot of time on the snow to see much in the way of improvement. Fortunately, I got to see, rather, experience, the fruits of my efforts over the past few years since moving to Colorado. While I was still the weakest skier in the group of outdoor and primarily ski journalists on this trip to Jackson Hole I was able to keep up and even enjoy myself.
The trip was organized and sponsored by Marmot with some help with Polartec. Marmot was using Polartec’s new breathable insulation technology called Alpha. The idea is to be able to be working hard in the winter and dump the excess heat your body creates to avoid overheating and sweating which can be a problem once your body starts to cool off. On the other hand, as you do cool you want your layers to be right to keep you warm enough. Usually this involves stripping and adding layers as you change your activity on the mountain. I’ve been using an Eddy Bauer jacket with Polartec Alpha most of this season and it has been great. The Marmot kit did really well though it could have been colder out to optimize the feature of the technology.
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