Luckily for me, 2009 was a year full of travel. I was fortunate enough to travel abroad to Japan and South Africa, as well as widely across the United States. On each and every one of these trips, I reached for the same combination of gear: The Marmot Cache, The Kompressor and the Endless Road Carry On.

Luckily for me, 2009 was a year full of travel. I was fortunate enough to travel abroad to Japan and South Africa, as well as widely across the United States. On each and every one of these trips, I reached for the same combination of gear: The Marmot Cache, The Kompressor and the Endless Road Carry On.

Luckily for me, 2009 was a year full of travel. I was fortunate enough to travel abroad to Japan and South Africa, as well as widely across the United States. On each and every one of these trips, I reached for the same combination of gear: The Marmot Cache, The Kompressor and the Endless Road Carry On.

Happy New Year! It has been a very happy new year in Chamonix, France. We have skied blower powder for the past week! All of the ski areas are open, and we are even able to ski from the top of the Aiguille du Midi right now. It looks like it will be a great year. Check out our recent videos at http://www.steepskiingcamps.com/SSCW/Video.html

It’s the holiday season and I find myself, yet again, vowing to be a more regular contributor to my blog in the coming year. It’s not that the outcry from my seven readers has been terribly deafening, but rather that sitting down to write is a very cathartic and healthy thing for me.

When it came time to pack for my climbing trip to England in October 2008, I wanted a lightweight, compact, hooded, synthetic jacket to keep we warm and dry....

There is a strange sense of order in the domestic terminal of the Kathmandu airport -- some common logic among the whirlpool of people and goods that constantly shuffle across the open and dirty warehouse. There are untold numbers of young Nepalis in western dress, raisin-faced old women laden with gold earrings and elaborate saris, and always a few of foreigners usually looking a bit bewildered. The airport possesses a kind of beauty that somehow, indescribably, makes sense. But this is lost to the untrained Western eye.

Rocklands, South Africa
Summer 2009
Kevin Jorgeson

Once again, the snow has started to fly here in Crested Butte and I am anxiously awaiting ski season. Fall is spent gearing up or winter in my world. This consists of organizing my Ultimate Groove events all over the world. Stay tuned to www.ultimategrooves.com for a full schedule of events. In 2010 we will be hosting events at Crystal Mountain, WA and HooDoo, Oregon, (outside Bend), as well as Sugar Bowl in Tahoe, CA and back east at Sunapee, NH and Jay Peak , VT.