Stephen Koch

Today is the last day of the first week of the Burpee Challenge. I have yet to do mine today. Some days are harder to motivate than others, and today is such a day for me. But I will complete them before I have to pick up Axl from Taekwondo class. How has it been [...]

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How are your Burpees going?! Does anyone need help? A couple key reminders…keep a tight stomach/core during the Burpee/s to protect your lower back. If you are challenged with push-ups from your feet, do them from your knees. The idea is to do what you can and build on it, to acknowledge where you are [...]

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I saw Cory Richard’s short film, COLD, on Saturday at the Adventure Film Festival’s Jackson stop. The rawness and honesty of the writing moved me. I liked how Cory narrated it and told it like it was. This past February 2, 2011, Simone Moro, Cory Richards, and Denis Urubko experienced brutal COLD as they completed [...]

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The venue has changed to the Town Square Tavern. Join us for the Adventure Film Festival World Tour Show in Jackson, Wyoming. Climb. Ride. Slide. Fly. Fight For Your Environment. Inspire. Go Higher Than You’ve Ever Dared To Go. Journey into the imagination. Behold the idealized beauty, carved by unbridled passion, at the first annual [...]

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Winter will be here before we know it…don’t get caught without the essentials for a safe, fun and successful backcountry outing. Check it out… http://bit.ly/abcWqj Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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While climbing the north face of the Grand Teton earlier this month I took photographs of this beautiful, rare and unusual looking flower which I had never seen before, called Alpine Lantern, at about 11,900 – 12,000 feet, just below the Guano Chimney. After some searching and inquiring about it, this is what Dick Scott, [...]

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Hidden Falls is a beautiful 80-foot-high “waterfall” located near Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park. In the summer, park visitors can hike the trail leading up to the falls, one of the busiest in Grand Teton. The distance to Hidden Falls from the boat dock, where the shuttle boat drops you off, is a [...]

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This is a short video of my partner hiking up from the lower saddle towards the Black Dike on the Grand Teton last week. We started out in the rain and knew the forecast was for storms but went for it anyway knowing we would turn around if conditions warranted it. The gusts were in [...]

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While reading a trip report on TetonAT.com about a recent ski descent of the Grand Teton I experienced butterflies in my stomach reading about the slough avalanches and felt their vulnerability while viewing one of the rappelling photos in the middle of the Chevy. Some of the comments about the trip report were about ropeless [...]

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When I first saw the Opedix S1 Ski and Board Tights, as a sufferer of knee pain for the past several years, I was intrigued enough to call Opedix to inquire. The owner, Kim Gustafson, called me back and we spoke for a while. He was telling me all the technical reasons why his tights work. [...]

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