OK we’re ready to blog another GravityFed Network classic story. Ever heard of The Angry Little Man of the Wasatch? HaHa.. Not even sure what Alex is up to these days, but he’s a legendary Little Cottonwood Canyon ripper (and drummer!).

Just one of many stories submitted by the ski bums of the Wasatch mountains of Utah, this story is Alex’s excellent account of a day in the Backcountry with good friends and damn good adventure.. “…it was starting to get late now and we were all very tired, but nobody was whining and, more importantly, nobody was loosing his cool.”

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We’ve been diggin’ out some old Alta-oriented content from deep in the GravityFed archives. Farmer Dave Profile is below and now here’s another great read from Bill Deleo. This short story describes a night of skiing by moonlight to Germania Pass (the top of the new Collins lift, formerly Germania)

It’s another William Deleo story/classic from GravityFed Network. Author’s Note: “For me, skiing at night has a different thrill- a sublime mystery and silence- and a chance to look at a mountain we think we know well, through nocturnal eyes.”

We’re hoping to have some new fresh stuff from ‘Billy D’ again soon.. so keep an eye out. In the meantime, enjoy “Full Moon Skiing”. After reading this again (it’s been a few years), I am all of sudden for winter and bright full moon powder runs. -Gary M

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We’re having fun with some social media sites. One in particular is Squidoo.com. I think I mentioned Squidoo in an earlier post, too. Anyways, you can claim your ‘lens’ or ‘lenses’ and rant on about whatever flaots your fancy boat. I messed with my Avalanche Safety lens over the weeked. In all, that’s only about an hour of playing around. Most of the content is packaged RSS feeds plugged into the Squidoo module that takes RSS and outputs the content to a web page.

Anyways, I built a lens about avalanche safety and here it is - Gary M

“We recently moved from Sandy, UT (base of Little Cottonwood Canyon), to Park City, and now to the Uintahs. Our pilgrimage from cities and resort skiing in the Wasatch has prompted an avalanche awareness refresher. We’ll be skiing a lot more ‘remote’ backcountry terrain out here accessible only with snow mobies. This Squidoo lens acts as my digital notebook for the winter of 2006-07.”

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Now this is definitely a GravityFed classic. It’s been somewhat hidden in recent years, hiding deep in some folder tree. The date of the old file was actually February of 2001! But check it out, they started a thread about the original publication of ‘Farmer Dave Profile’ on the TGR Forums - Alta’s Farmer Dave Profile. Thread started on 12-14-2004, 11:45 AM by Xover. Nice!!

Ok enough blabbin’. We’re glad to post the re-launch of this Billy D classic on the OGE Blog! Digg it, folks:

Ever heard the phrase “expression through movement”? When us Altafarians see the farmer’s ski tracks in the Alta backcountry that’s what we think of. Farmer Dave Van Dame is an Alta skier and legend because of his skiing technique. Author William Deleo has produced a must read for powder skiers.

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This compelling story is an email interview with avalanche survivor Martin Gulsrud, which describes his first hand experience surviving an avalanche in France on January 29 in 2005. “I started to realize that I was going to be buried seconds later, so I started to expand my lungs as much as possible so I could have space to breathe under the snow pack.” The Avalung from Black Diamond Equipment, Ltd., has a lot to do with his positive outcome…

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William Deleo (Billy D) is an Alta legend, and has contributed several writing pieces over the years to the mountain culture media outlet Gravityfed Network. ‘Fly Fishing’ is in fact a refreshing classic. His prose is simple and pure. Reading his stories will inspire you to embrace which ever of his passions he’s describing. If you’re a fly fisherman, read this article. We’ll feature more of his work to be sure. Keep an eye out for ‘Farmer Dave Profile’.

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From a base camp at 16,000′ above sea level, this is Dan Caruso’s first-hand account of his experience at Cotopaxi. Down on the equator in Ecuador, Cotopaxi rises high above the Amazon Basin in ‘The Avenue of the Volcanoes.’ This story is another classic and orginal publication from the GravityFed Network.

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Alta, Utah, skiing legend and surf ride charger ‘Johnny B’ (John Bernard) describes his Mexico Thrashing via GravityFed.com. This is another GravityFed classic! Re-published from back-in-the-day, Johnny B: “It was pulling me into the path of the next wave, the biggest, brownest, prick of a wave I’d ever seen.”

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This is a story that highlights how ski bums handle NO SNOW. Haha. A Tide of Agression was written by a senior editor at Powder Magazine before he was working for Primedia. Derek Taylor has a way with words, and GravityFed is proud to bring you this article…

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