Each season it starts with a prayer for a good winter, the health to climb snowy mountains, and some cameras. We can sacrifice, speculate and stare at weather models all day, but the truth is we don’t know what winter will bring. Some will receive the bounty and some will get the drought. Time spent chasing storms, interesting characters and exploring stories will accumulate and take shape. What sort of shape? That we don’t know. The season will decide. The season dictates what you are about to see more than we do. Of course we have ideas and sometimes they line up with Mother Nature. And often times they do not. The task is just to be aware, keep breaking trail in the direction that calls you and capture the impossible beauty of the backcountry along the way.

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