Thomas Turiano

I caught my first glance of the ridge while looking through "Select Peaks." The image of a beautiful, long, pure rock line stuck in my head, and I asked around to see if I could find any info on the route. Through my research, I determined the route probably had not been climbed, and we sk...

I snowboarded the southwest face of Haystack Pk. in the Salt River Range on Sunday, 5/15. I followed an incredibly deep path of avalanche debris in the bottom of the gully for quite a ways to a point where the southwest face funneled into three chutes. I chose the rightmost, which appeared to be the...

Has anyone climbed/skied Haystack Peak or maybe something else in the Salt Rivers recently? How close to the end of the road can one get?

Hi Tom, I was recently back at ye olde ski cabin and found a few interesting trip reports by a frequent cabin patron in an old journal. He refers to the "Gros Glacier Couloir"- is this the main southwest couloir you refer to? Also, I saw a spectacular shot in the vicinity of Cache Pk., an ...