What goes into a 10,000 foot day in the backcountry?
By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink
Most people think of 10,000 feet as the altitude they can pretend to turn their electronics back on at during a long flight, but for professional athletes Josh Daiek and Abe Greenspan, it’s a full day in the Tahoe backcountry and the second installment of their “Tahoe Ten” series.
In coordination with the launch of their new ski film, “Tahoe Ten – Kirkwood to Hope Valley,” we decided to interview with Daiek and Greenspan about what it takes to link some of Tahoe’s rowdiest lines into a five peak, 20-mile, 10,000 foot, single day push.
How did the idea for “Tahoe Ten” first come about? Daiek, “Abe and I were hiking Mt. Tallac last season chatting up ideas for different link ups and how we could connect multiple ski tours into a single day. It didn’t actually start as ‘let’s go hike 10,000 vertical feet,’ it was more or less let’s see how far we can go.”
