The past week has been a beautiful one in the Wood River Valley. Warm sunny days with passing thunderstorms have created perfect tacky trails and beautiful riding. Below are some shots of riding in the South Valley this past week. Enjoy!
Joe St.Onge and Patrick Graham (with assistant guides Toby Citret and Sam Felch) just returned from 4 days in the Pioneer Mountains. The goal of the trip was to teach the skills and techniques used in ski mountaineering and to apply those skills climbing and skiing the spectacular peaks of [click here for more]
Guide: Joe St.Onge and apprentice: Toby Citret just returned from a fun 3 days up in the Pioneer Mountains with a group of Utah skiers looking to ski big peaks in the wilds of Idaho! Thanks to Toby for the shots!
Watch out! The interns have gotten ahold of the blog! On Tuesday, nine of Sun Valley Trekkings finest converged on the Redfish Lake parking area to find a not-so-snow-covered road in to the summer trailhead. After a few hours of hauling sleds full of food, beverages, and most importantly chainsaws [click here for more]
A foot of new snow, cold temps, low wind and a hardy group of men from the north provided the necessary ingredients for a phenomenal week in the Sawtooth Mountains. Guides: Joe St.Onge and Chris Marshall and apprentices Toby Citret and Sam Felch led the group from Bench Hut to [click here for more]
We are just back from a quick and fun two days and one night ski trip into the Pioneer Yurt with a long time local ski group. While the snow conditions were not perfect, pretty tours in the alpine basins surrounding the yurt and the comraderie of yurt life made [click here for more]
Solar Pillows at Tornak Hut! Last week Sun Valley Trekking hosted a group of pro skiers/riders (Ralph Backstrom, Griffin Post, and Neil Provo) as well as folks from Backcountry.com and Goal Zero. The purpose: to test the backcountry solar power systems designed by Goal Zero while skiing our tails off [click here for more]
We are still finding the powder goods in the Sun Valley backcountry! For those that think the lack of recent snow means poor skiing, we recomend you check out some of these pics to see what the skiing is like right now. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? [click here for more]
As of today, all our locations except Fishhook have been converted from kerosine lantern to solar powered LEDs. The solar upgrade uses Goal Zero equipment and also includes a mp3 speaker too. The benefits are twofold, it’s a step in the green direction and the noise pollution from the kerosine [click here for more]
Our weekly Powder Tours have been reaping the rewards of a great winter…and our guides obsession to get clients into fresh soft snow. While tours these days might cross wind affected ridge tops, clients are still dropping in to lines filled with fun untracked powder! Here are a few images [click here for more]