Dmitry Pruss
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A Little About Me
I used SP as a route info source before. After seeing a familiar name of a Summitpost contributor in a paper summit log, gave it one more thought. (The name was Joseph Bullough! ) So I started contributing, mostly the winter stuff. Mostly the adventures of Team UINTA :) You know, everything looks more pretty with a snowcover on it :)
I am fully aware that this stuff is a bit unusual for SP. The more I appreciate your good votes :D
Rewind 1: I first discovered "organized" mountain sports in the US in a sort of unlikely place, joining Sierra / PATC outings in NoVa. Thanks Cliff Noyes for putting up with me :) In Utah, the WMC was "the" club for me (special thanks to Larry Swanson, Walt Haas, Mike Berry, and Steve Pritchett!) until the web stuff such as SP grew out of control to eclipse it.
Rewind 2: Back in the old country, there has been a great bureaucratic schism in the mountaneering sports, separating the "alpinists" who climbed summits from the various shades of "tourists" who trekked around them. I belonged to the latter lowly camp, and despite some adventureous trips to the mountains down South (including one well-known to SPers, the Elbrus, guerilla-style), I quickly subscribed to a notion that ski mountaneering and the Great North are way more cool. Participated in, and led my share of, ski backpacking expedition in the Arctics and Siberia, before settling into less-demanding day trips.
Rewind 3: My hometown is located in the middle of a great plain, and I grew up having very little experience with the mountains, except for one Caucasus trek when I was 6. My outdoors have been multi-day road cycling tours in summer, xc skiing in the woods around the city, and later on some o-running. I reconnected with "serious" mountains with the help of outdoor rec program in my alma mater
I am fully aware that this stuff is a bit unusual for SP. The more I appreciate your good votes :D
Rewind 1: I first discovered "organized" mountain sports in the US in a sort of unlikely place, joining Sierra / PATC outings in NoVa. Thanks Cliff Noyes for putting up with me :) In Utah, the WMC was "the" club for me (special thanks to Larry Swanson, Walt Haas, Mike Berry, and Steve Pritchett!) until the web stuff such as SP grew out of control to eclipse it.
Rewind 2: Back in the old country, there has been a great bureaucratic schism in the mountaneering sports, separating the "alpinists" who climbed summits from the various shades of "tourists" who trekked around them. I belonged to the latter lowly camp, and despite some adventureous trips to the mountains down South (including one well-known to SPers, the Elbrus, guerilla-style), I quickly subscribed to a notion that ski mountaneering and the Great North are way more cool. Participated in, and led my share of, ski backpacking expedition in the Arctics and Siberia, before settling into less-demanding day trips.
Rewind 3: My hometown is located in the middle of a great plain, and I grew up having very little experience with the mountains, except for one Caucasus trek when I was 6. My outdoors have been multi-day road cycling tours in summer, xc skiing in the woods around the city, and later on some o-running. I reconnected with "serious" mountains with the help of outdoor rec program in my alma mater
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My Areas & Ranges (2)
- Altay
- Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area Uinta Mountains
My Mountains & Rocks (7)
- Broadhead Ridge Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
- Caja de Muertos Caribbean Island Peaks
- East Lovenia High Uintas Wilderness
- Har Zefahot
- Ka Lae / South Point
- Mount Powell High Uintas Wilderness
- Squaw BM High Uintas Wilderness
My Routes (9)
- Black Mountain (West) Ridge Lookout Peak
- East Bowl descent Mount Wolverine & Mount Tuscarora
- Goblins' Top Goblin Valley
- Las Rodillas Coloir (Totonacos) Iztaccihuatl
- Sam Thomas Gulch North Thunder Mountain
- Scow Lake - North Ridge Lamotte Peak
- SW Bowl / Spur Haystack Mountain
- West Fk Blacks Fk - West Cirque Tokewanna Peak
- Wishbone Ridge East White Baldy
My Trip Reports (30)
- "Long" Ski Tour Long Mountain
- 2 trips to the Wall Wall Peak (Wall BM)
- Cardwell - Murdock Loop Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
- Castle Duke Traverse 3/12/06 Castle Peak
- Dahlgreens to Powell ski tour Mount Powell
- Deseret Peak on a Green Avy-Danger Day Deseret Peak
- Freezing in redrock country Bryce Canyon National Park
- Grizz Turns 100 on Lone Peak Lone Peak
- Grizz's 86th Lone Peak
- High Benches to Cone Peak Cone Peak (Peak 11,260)
- July Ski: Racing Sunrise on Timp Mt. Timpanogos (UT)
- June skiing Tokewanna, or the Rules of Summer Skis Tokewanna Peak
- June skiing Wolverine Mount Wolverine & Mount Tuscarora
- Kings Peak Tour 07: The Prelude Kings Peak
- KPT07: The Swansons' 34th Kings Peak Ski Run Kings Peak
- May Powder on Burros High Uintas Wilderness
- May Ski Tour to Notch and Reids Reids Peak
- Moonset and Sunrise on Grandeur Grandeur Peak
- Not too stormy on Storm Mtn Storm Mountain
- Ridgeline Tour around Hells Kitchen Long Mountain
- Rock Slide Canyon Ridge Loop Strawberry Peak & Twin Peaks
- Skiing East Long Mountain East Long Mtn
- Slader Ridge - Hells Kitchen Ridge 2/17/08 Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
- Snowless January on Mt Ellen Mount Ellen (UT)
- Snowmist 2 Sunshine Lookout Peak
- Spring skiing up N ridge of Gilbert Gilbert Peak
- The Swansons' 33rd Kings Peak Ski Run Kings Peak
- Uinta Crest Traverse 3/11/07 Duke Mountain (a.k.a. Flat Iron Mountain)
- Winter 2005-2006 meta-TR
- Winter R2R2R: Jacob Lake to South Rim and back Grand Canyon National Park
My Articles (1)
- Detective Photo Hunt in the Uintas Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
My Albums (20)
- Age of Canvas
- Anemone Wildflower Albums Collected
- Backcountry Skiing Altay, Siberia, 1988 Altay
- Backcountry Skiing Transbaikalia, 1986
- Bountiful XC Bountiful Peak
- Castle Peak from the South Castle Peak
- Coffin Peak April Ski Tour pictures Uinta Mountains
- Cyclamen Wildflower Albums Collected
- Dragging a leg on Sunset Sunset Peak
- Hidden Lake Photo Hunt - Trip 4 Detective Photo Hunt in the Uintas
- Igloos
- KPT08: pictures from the Swansons' 35th Kings Peak Ski Run Kings Peak
- Old Mills
- Rob's photos from Kings Peak Tour KPT07: The Swansons' 34th Kings Peak Ski Run
- Shrines and Legends of the Caucasus Caucasus
- Ski Backpacking in the Ural Arctics
- Swanson Brothers' Annual Kings Peak Run Pictures Kings Peak
- Two Haystack tours Haystack Mountain
- Uintah Photo Hunt Trip 3 Detective Photo Hunt in the Uintas
- Walt's Triple Traverse 5/12/07 Mt. Dromedary
My Custom Objects (2)
- construction site / testing area
- Wetherton and Beverly disappearance - Media clippings Detective Photo Hunt in the Uintas
My Canyons (1)
- Hidden Stream Canyon Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
My Trailheads (1)
- Farmington Flats Winter TH Wasatch Range (North)
My Fact Sheets (1)
- Deep Creek Geodetic Controls Ibapah Peak (UT)
My Gear Reviews (1)
- FAST FIND 200 Personal Locator Beacon
Climber's Logs I've Signed (3)
Mountains & Rocks (3)
- Mount Baldy (UT) Wasatch Alpine Ridge
- Iron Mine Mtn Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
- Wall Peak (Wall BM) Western Uinta / Lakes Roadless Area
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