Articles written by John Givot

John Givot|Updated Dec 29, 2009

Two backcountry ski huts, tucked in underneath a stand of old-growth hemlock trees on the far edge of frozen Three Creek Lake, have been a decade in the making. Gabe Chladek and Shane Fox met while working as wilderness rangers for the Forest Service in Sisters, in the late 1990s. During long days in the mountains they began dreaming of a hut system to better access the backcountry skiing in the Three Sisters Wilderness. They put together what Fox called an idealistic... Full story