Ski touring often starts with poring over maps, tracing lines that will carve a route, lovely lines to new vistas… places you have only dreamed of. Having spent a lifetime doing just that, I’d like to share PDF guide sets of of my favorite routes.
These guides intentionally provide only some of the information that you need. You will not just be following a blue dot on a screen. You will need to look up and around, put your skills to use and use your best judgement. Start off easily and expand your skills and aspire to longer and harder tours.
Above all enjoy and respect the natural wonders and environment of the Sierra Nevada. Finish fulfilled, yet eager for more.
SP Parker
“Go, my friends. Don’t delay.
Lose yourself and maybe you’ll find yourself—on the backside of beyond.”
– Alan Bard, aka, Right Reverend Bardini, First Church of the Open Slopes