We love to share our passion for the mountains with more people around the world, we do so with guidebooks on ski tour, descents and traverses and instructional books on the sport. 

I feel lucky to have been able to have come to the North Cascades when there was still a bit of route pioneering on classic alpine and ski objectives to be done. It was simply a lot of fun and allowed me to profile the guiding service in a meaningful way without spending hard earned cash on expensive adds in magazines. Some of the routes that have come from this are the now classic ski traverses, “The Forbidden Tour”, the “Snoqualmie High Route”, first descents of the Mount Buckner, Spider Mountain and Mount Torment North Faces, alpine traverses of Bonanza and Formidable Peak and more. As of late some of our young guides; Forest McBrian, Trevor Kostanich and Aaron Mainer, have also completed some high caliber traverses of the Picket Range, the North Central Cascades and a new descent of the iconic Liberty Ridge on Mount Rainier. 

Our work has led to product consulting for K2 Sports, Outdoor Research and others.  Our design ideas have been used to build successful products such as the K2 Shuksan, the K2 rescue shovel, the OR Trailbreaker Pant and more.

These products have given us a glimpse into what will come on the market in the next couple years as well as the in-depth knowledge of materials and construction methods. This of course influences our buying decisions for the retail store.