Lou’s News #15 – Memoir Excerpt, Tabeguache Peak
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Main subject here is the coming memoir, but I’ll hit some ski gear now and then, and maybe a few trip reports. Frequency: once or twice a month — no intention to bombard you. Below, a snip from the book.
Lisa Dawson on Tabeguache Peak, Colorado, 1988. Ski the fourteeners project — peak #32
“… When the snows of March finally hit, Lisa joined me for a ten hour day on 14,162-foot Tabeguache Peak, where we ski climbed through a grove of ancient bristlecone pines as the sun fell through the western sky. I caught the summit, then spent too much time photographing the methuselahs. We skied back to our truck in the dark. By now, my wife was used to such things. Three weeks later, I went for Capitol Peak. Lisa stayed home for that little adventure — headlamp skiing through the pines was one thing, the stone ramparts of Colorado’s toughest fourteener were quite another. …”
From Lou Dawson’s Avalanche Dreams, a memoir.
