{"id":11688,"date":"2013-04-15T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:22:08","slug":"alaska-backcountry-skiing-trip-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/alaska-backcountry-skiing-trip-teaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Backcountry Skiing Trip Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Backcountry<\/a>Last week, three friends from Colorado came up to join me for a good old fashioned Alaska backcountry ski trip. (Two of the three are the same friends I skied in the Canadian Rockies<\/a> with a few years ago.) We’d been planning our trip for months, but Alaska didn’t quite cooperate. A\u00a0huge double storm system hit just as they arrived and threw everything out the window.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we were able to adapt, and over the next seven days, we found great snow, great weather and solid avalanche stability. Here is a tiny teaser of images from our trip. WAY more photos to come this week. In fact, these are just from a quick glance at the first day. I haven’t even looked at the rest of the shots myself yet.<\/p>\n

Not only did this trip turn my quads into rubber bands, it gave me an opportunity to do some extensive testing on both the new Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f\/4G ED VR lens<\/a>\u00a0and the new Fujifilm X20<\/a>, which I’d gotten just a few days before the trip.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using the new Nikon 70-200 zoom quite a bit during the past two months<\/a>, so I already knew how well it performed. However, the X20 is brand new. I’d hardly used it at all, save for shooting a few quick snaps in my neighborhood.<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing a full review of the X20 very soon, (read my first impressions here)<\/a>, but for now, I’ll just say that it’s an awesome little camera that has won my heart even more so than the X10 did. I put it through a lot during this trip, and it performed like a champ. Let’s just say that the X20<\/a> is my new best friend.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the pics and consider signing up for my newsletter so that you won’t miss the rest of my Alaska ski trip photos and my upcoming X20 review.<\/p>\n

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