On Episode 116 of Totally Deep Podcast, Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of www.cripplecreekbc.com bring you the lowdown on the world of uphill and backcountry skiing and boarding. Gear, technique, fashion, jargon, guests, and assorted spray from folks who know how to earn it in the backcountry. The world's best backcountry skiing podcast.

It is time to not only raise the levels but also to get granular about the bike quiver. You decide if Doug throws shade at the gravel scene or is verbally fine-tuning his bike quiver to optimize what a gravel-road-mountain bike can be. And if clip-on time trial bars might save a few watts and seconds, maybe it is time to consider that gear add-on.  

Doug and Randy also explore the mertis of a highly structured training plan. The conclusion is to be kind on yourself, know your prioritities, and maybe consider dialing back the training, if not the levels. 

On Episode 116 of the Totally Deep Podcast:

1. Priming with coffee—why am I awake all night?
2. Road bikes, gravel bikes, and mountain bikes...clip-on time trial bars?
3. Leadville 100
4. 120 Travel and pads for sport.
5. Germany and E-bikes.
6. Training tips for bike racing.
7. Training tips for busy people—all training for something else.
8. Am I an inferior being? No you are not.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2024-2025 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com or wildsnow.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

On Episode 115 of Totally Deep Podcast, Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of www.cripplecreekbc.com bring you the lowdown on the world of uphill and backcountry skiing and boarding. Gear, technique, fashion, jargon, guests, and assorted spray from folks who know how to earn it in the backcountry. The world's best backcountry skiing podcast.

Our guest is Lou Dawson. Over decades, Dawson has become many things in the backcountry community: historian, gear nerd, pacesetter, and visionary. The first person to ski all of Colorado's 14ers, Dawson's backcountry forays are legendary.

Avalanche Dreams—A Memoir of Climbing and Life is Dawson's take on a life of mountains and family. He traces an adventurous throughline extending from Texas to the Roaring Fork Valley that ultimately finds a balance between adventure and creating community. 

We discuss Dawson's rich life on the podcast. Join us for this excellent listen. If you want to read Dawson's memoir, you can find more information on his website linked here.  

On Episode 115 of the Totally Deep Podcast:

1. Roaring Fork Valley musings.
2. Discussing the memoir and the art of transformation.
3. The force that is Lisa Dawson. 
4. Death and the mountains, death and life.
5. The pull of Highland Peak.
6. Wooden skis and 12 pounds/foot.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2024-2025 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com or wildsnow.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

Doug and Randy are back from a long summer of not vacation to spread the stoke for bikes, gear, and the upcoming season.

1. Breck Epic
2. Salomon Shift
3. Upcoming Season

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2023-2024 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com.

This is a quick PSA that spring is the most dangerous time of year to let your guard down in avalanche terrain. Listeners, please stay safe out there. Then, we get into the gear previews for the upcoming season!

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2023-2024 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

Doug sits down with Nathan Fry and Pantelis "Jerry" Geralis to talk about their experience in the Edelweiss raid, a military training event for mountain warfare. The gauntlet is thrown leading up to the 2024 Elk Mountain Grand Traverse race where Nathan and Jerry will text their need for lycra and speed to drop the rucksacks and come out to Colorado. 

Doug and friends Elliott Bates and coach Danny Blake from Dynamic Performance System are here to discuss training and mental tactics leading up to the PDG 2024. The Patrouille des Glaciers is a through-the-night ski race started in the 1940s by the Swiss military, testing ski skills, endurance and the ability to travel efficiently through technical mountains. The stoke is real! Lets get ready for a great season. 

Check out https://dynamicperformance.systems/ for more training tips.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2023-2024 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

Doug and Randy are back from a long summer of not vacation to spread the stoke for bikes, gear, and the upcoming season.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2023-2024 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

In Episode 109 of Totally Deep Podcast, Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of www.cripplecreekbc.com bring you the lowdown on the world of uphill and backcountry skiing and boarding. Gear, technique, fashion, jargon, guests, and assorted spray from folks who know how to earn it in the backcountry. The world's best backcountry skiing podcast.

The wheelhouse of Totally Deep expands in this episode when Doug and Randy interview Mark Grotjahn, a noted American artist who also happens to backcountry ski. Or, maybe, for TDP purposes, we have a backcountry skier who happens to be an artist. No matter, Grothjahn brings a unique and welcome perspective to the ski scene that embodies his broad vision of seeing the world. Gagosian.com writes about his art, "Grotjahn combines gesture and geometry with abstraction and figuration in visually dynamic paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Each of his series reflects a range of art-historical influences and unfolds in almost obsessive permutations."

You can learn more about Grotjahn and his art here.

But the story doesn't end there. Grotjahn, a powder snow lover, also has a soft spot for DPS skis. More on that in a bit.

Recently, Grtotjahn opened an exhibit titled Backcountry. "In Backcountry, he continues to draw inspiration from rural landscapes and his ski touring and fly-fishing adventures in the backcountry of western Colorado," writes Gagosian.com. Along with the exhibit, Cripple Creek Backcountry, Grotjahn, and DPS released a limited edition series of skis featuring Grotjahn's art on the topsheets: the new ski is known as the Mark Grotjahn DPS 50 Kitchens Ski.

This also marks the release of a new DPS powder ski, the Kaizen 112. 

On Episode 109 of the Totally Deep Podcast:

1. Racecourse setting.
2. The DPS/Grotjahn creation.
3. Skinning vs Sorels: skinning wins.
4. The emotional progression while ascending. 
5. Creating Backcountry.
6. Topsheet designs: monochromes with DPS.
7. Backcountry passion and the quiver.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2022-2023 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com or wildsnow.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

In Episode 108 of Totally Deep Podcast, Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of www.cripplecreekbc.com bring you the lowdown on the world of uphill and backcountry skiing and boarding. Gear, technique, fashion, jargon, guests, and assorted spray from folks who know how to earn it in the backcountry. The world's best backcountry skiing podcast.

Cody Townsend cements himself into the ski mountaineering lore (only you can define ski mountaineering) as his quest to ski The Fifty continues. This season, Tonswend has released videos documenting more classics, including a three-part Bugs to Rogers Traverse and a smattering of lines, including the Skyladder and a return to The Spinx in Alaska. 

Cody also chats about the season at hand and his progress with the project, and as it comes down to spicier and logistically more complex lines, how the Fifty Project could extend several years out.

Then there's the gear. Doug and Cody discuss the evolution of Salomon's touring boot lineup and the release of the new QST Echo 106 ski, a more touring-oriented QST. 

On Episode 108 of the Totally Deep Podcast:

1. What  does an astronaut have to do wth skiing
2. What exactly is a freeride ski?
3. Realtime documenting of The Fifty.
4. Capturing lines we dream of.
5. Partnering up and the learning.
6. Developing the touring boot line.
7. The new QST Echo 106.
8. The future of The Fifty.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2022-2023 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com or wildsnow.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.

In Episode 107 of Totally Deep Podcast, Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of www.cripplecreekbc.com bring you the lowdown on the world of uphill and backcountry skiing and boarding. Gear, technique, fashion, jargon, guests, and assorted spray from folks who know how to earn it in the backcountry. The world's best backcountry skiing podcast.

Episode 107 features Blase Reardon, the Director of the Flathead Avalanche Center in Northwest Montana. Reardon has deep experience in the avalanche forecasting realm, having worked at the Sawtooth Avalanche Center and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Dialing up the TDP time machine, Reardon first appeared on the podcast in 2015, where they discussed such things as the STFU skintrack. You can find that episode here. 

A highlight of episode 107 isn't a breakdown of the snow science but a real-deal unpacking of our complex decision-making processes in the backcountry. The season, not unlike many others, has been rife with unstable snowpacks in some regions and the uneasy quest to find safe, stable, and carefree skiing. With this in mind, Doug and Blase discuss their time together in Carbondale as Doug's local crew tries to stack the deck in their favor knowing that it is still house rules in avalanche terrain.  

On Episode 107 of the Totally Deep Podcast:

1. The Snowy Torrents.

2. Open season - skiing anything in good snow.

3. A relative bump in the number of backcountry skiers.

4. Othering in the backcountry.

5. Young and brash.

6. The Wrecking Crew.

7. Blase asks the question: when did Doug get religion?

8. Classic biases in the backcountry.

Thanks for listening and joining us for the 2022-2023 season. 

And remember: be safe out there. 

More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com or wildsnow.com.

Comments: [email protected].

Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450

Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, it's all uphill from here.