Photo Journal & Trip Reports (January)

Please enjoy these photo journals and trip reports from some of my outdoor photography adventures, starting with the most recent. You can subscribe to follow my latest blog posts (and any other blogs as well) by using a feed reader such as Inoreader or Feedly.

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps

January 2026 | Piemonte, Italy & Hautes-Alpes, France

Our next stage of chasing powder in the Alps in January was in the western Piemonte of Italy and the Haute-Alps of France just over the border, a region full of extensive larch forests. We scored some surprise post-snowstorm powder at Bardonecchia and Sestriere in Italy, toured the expansive terrain of Montgenèvre in France on a beautiful blue sky day, then caught another massive snowstorm at Serra Chevalier in France when there was literally too much snow to ride!

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 3): Trees of Limone Piemonte — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 3): Trees of Limone Piemonte

January 2026 | Limone Piemonte, Italy

After chasing powder from Austria to Switzerland, there was a now a big Retour d'Est storm forecasted to hit the far southern Alps in the Piemonte region of western Italy. This was great news, particularly because the mountains there already had a solid snowpack from an earlier Retour d'Est in December...

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 2): Swiss Snow Dreams — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 2): Swiss Snow Dreams

January 2026 | Valais, Switzerland

With a weather forecast promising a big snowstorm in the western Alps, we drove to Valais in western Switzerland to best position ourselves for the incoming powder. We arrived along with the storm and spent the next week skiing & snowboarding at various ski areas up and down the valley. Here's a gallery of photos from the week, along with our experiences there.

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 1): Low Tide in Austria — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 1): Low Tide in Austria

January 2026 | Fieberbrunn, Austria

After visiting Claudia's family over Christmas in Germany, we took the train down to Munich and picked up a rental car for the next phase of our winter Euro trip: a month of skiing and snowboarding in the Alps! As January rolled around, though, my excitement was tamped down a bit by the fact that the Alps were experiencing a miserably low snow year so far. Powder prospects looked grim, with much of the Alps barely having any snowpack at all...

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January in the French Alps — January in the French Alps

January 2025 | France

On New Years Eve, my wife Claudia and I flew to France to spend the month of January skiing/snowboarding in the French Alps! We rented a car in Geneva, drove to Chamonix, then slowly worked our way south over the next three weeks, skiing at lots of different ski areas both big and small mainly in the Haute-Savoie and Savoie regions...

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A Hair-Raising New Years in Ouray — A Hair-Raising New Years in Ouray

January 1, 2020 | Ouray, Colorado

My last hours of 2019 ended with quite a hair-raising experience, and I have a crazy story to tell you from my outings last night to photograph the New Years fireworks.

I had an idea last night to snowshoe up to a cliff overlooking town to gain a unique perspective of the fireworks over the valley, so at 10:30pm I bundled up, strapped on my snowshoes and headlamp, and started trudging up through knee deep powder towards my destination...

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Powderfest at the Fowler/Hilliard Hut — Powderfest at the Fowler/Hilliard Hut

January 2014 | Gore Range, Colorado

It had been snowing for nearly three weeks straight in the northern mountains of Colorado. With the northwest storm flow forecasted to dump a few more heavy punches before finally clearing out, last week I checked the 10th Mtn...

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Dientes de Navarino — Dientes de Navarino

January 2012 | Tierra del Fuego, Chile

Last week Claudia and I and took a zodiac boat ride from Ushuaia to Isla Navarino, an island that is actually in Chile even though it’s right across the Beagle Channel from Ushuaia and Argentina. So, coming and going, four more stamps in our passports, which are nearly full of Chile and Argentina stamps after three months of border crossings between the two countries...

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Winter Camping on Table Mountain — Winter Camping on Table Mountain

January 2010 | Tetons, Wyoming

With a full moon and a partly sunny weather forecast, I decided this last Thursday to do a winter camping trip up on Table Mountain, on the west side of the Teton Range. The hike in was grueling, having to put in a skin track all by myself up 4,000 vertical feet through deep heavy powder, with a heavy backpack...

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Hideout Cabin — Hideout Cabin

January 2009 | San Juan Mountains, Colorado

This weekend I joined some friends for a three day weekend up at their backcountry cabin in the San Juan Mountains south of Telluride, Colorado. The cabin’s a real gem, situated in a rugged San Juan setting surrounded by prime ski terrain...

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