May 2009 - Crater Lake circumnavigation on XC gear, now online! A 2 day trip!

April 2009 - we are still around, not as active with trip reports due to a busy ski season. A new one is online, a second climb & ski of Mount Saint Helens within a year apart from the first. See featured stories.

Mid June 2008 - Mount Hood, Oregon -- the classic mountain, skied on a perfect day right from the summit ridge.

Early June 2008 - Old Snowy Mountain in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, a remote location and excellent snow conditions. An other Trip Report online.

May 2008 - Mt. Saint Helens, Volcano skiing, a new feature trip report.

Late March 2008 - Spring Equinox thoughts, a feature story. "The smelly mountain"

Early March 2008 - 5 friends of mine and I spend a 3 day weekend near White Pass in Washington State and toured around in the Hogback Mountain backcountry. A new trip report with plenty of photographs.

July 2007 - Mount Adams, Pikers Peak with a +4,000 foot ski descent down the SW chutes & some new photographs in the gallery

June 2007 - Snowdome madness, new feature trip from 3 June outings to Mt. Hood's north side

late March 2007 - an other trip to Cooper Spur, with Ben from Tennessee, telemark and backcountry rail ripper

late February 2007 - the secret powstash, skiing the solitude, a new featured backcountry skiing trip

early February 2007 - A rainy Saturday makes it possible, the Cascade Mountain Backcountry skiing page is posted.

December 2006 - Major overhaul and clean up of the entire Backcountryfriends.com directory.

July 2006 - Summer skitouring season on Cascade Volcanoes, 2 new trip report from Mt. Hood & Mt. Adams; some new pictures in the gallery

May 2006 - New trip report about a ski weekend in the Stubai Alps, Austria

April 2006 - Blue Ridge Mountains, a new photo gallery from the Appalachian Mtns in North Carolina

January 2006 - powder pictures in the gallery - skiing on the slopes of a Cascade Volcano in Oregon

December 2005 - the ice was perfect mid December, a new TR about ice climbing in the Blue Ridge Mountains and a couple new pictures in the Gallery.

October 2005 - GALLERY: this year's Appalachian foliage was spectacular. Check out the new photo collection, new pictures in the Nature Gallery as well, Photo TR about a climb on TABLE ROCK, Linville Gorge,

BACKCOUNTRY SKIING: the European Alps page is updated and I added a few links.

GERMAN PAGES: neu überarbeitet, neue Tourenberichte über 2 Juli Skitouren in den Alpen,

August 2005 - spend a few weeks in the Alps - ski touring in July! - 4 new trip reports and new photographs in the gallery

June 2005 - 7 new pictures in gallery - nature page 4!

May 2005 - Silverton Mountain Backcountry Ski resort, new trip report from February is online

March 2005 - spend some time in the backcountry of the San Juan Mountains in SW-Colorado, new TR and a story about some unfortunate events on the features page

January 2005 - Grandfather Mountain site updated with some new pictures and two trip reports

October 2004 - Leave turning season, hiking with the family, cooler temperatures, clear air with long range views - winter is coming closer, the first snow flurries in Blowing Rock on the 15th! -- new pictures in gallery!

July 2004 - Endlich sind drei Tourenberichte in deutscher Version fertig. Die Skitour auf den Hohen Fricken, die Whitegrass Skitour und das Season Finale '04 mit zwei Skitourenberichten aus Colorado.