Ed still going big
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It’s mid-May, and yet he’s peculiarly enthusiastic about skiing. At a time when most of us are looking ahead to boating and biking, he wouldn’t dream of stowing away the skis. In fact, he never stows away the skis.
He’s Ed Bushnell, journalist, videographer and adventurer turned law scholar. And he’s in Jackson this week to keep alive his streak of skiing every month of the year.
With his turns on Teton Pass on Sunday, Ed has run his streak to 91 consecutive months. He has hiked and skied at least 500 vertical feet in the backcountry — and usually more than 1,500 feet — at least once a month since Bill Clinton was president.
July 2001 was a particularly tough month, but he managed a short descent of the deeply rutted Spoon Couloir above Amphitheater Lake.
On Monday, Ed made a half-frozen, half-mush run down Snow King look customarily smooth. Besides taking this leap off the cornice atop the King, he also pulled a spread eagle off an old kicker about halfway down.
While his streak is impressive, he still has a ways to go to catch the leaders in this pantheon of year-round skiers in the Pacific Northwest.
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Nice work, Ed - now time to step it up! Look to Dale Webster for inspiration: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_ballard/04/23/webster/index.html
May 14th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Well done! Nice! Roll 91A at the bottom after 3 p.m. …
May 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
So, like I was skinning the King the other day and there were these three summer-only chicks, each with three dogs - uh 9 dogs, yep.
My second thought was, … “cool, freshies!”
May 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
Ed capped off his trip yesterday with a ski descent of the Grand Teton, his first.
Now that he has reached the pinnacle of his ski mountaineering career, he declared that his days of extreme skiing are over — although his definition of “extreme” may differ substantially from yours or mine.
Well done, Ed.