This is potentially the page where you find out who I am, what I do, why I do it and what my favorite color is. I’m still working on those things and I’ll post it here If I figure it all out.

As you can see my favorite color is “blue steel”. I take life very seriously and my life right now is seriously skiing. Each day I wake up and head out to try and find the best snow on the biggest slopes without getting avalanched. When summer rolls around I’m training mind and body for the next round of winter’s snow.

It’s a great existence full of excitement, adventure and wonder. I consider myself very blessed to live a life playing in the mountains with my friends and I’ll continue to do it until my license is revoked. Somebody’s got to do it

To support my habit I film, edit, produce, and market ski movies for Powderwhore Productions. The PW production house is the result of myself, Andy Jacobsen, Andy Rosenberg and my brother Jonah Howell heading out to capture the snowy mountain experience and bringing it to a screen near you.

Highlights
-Three top ten finishes in Freeski (Extreme)Telemark Competitions
-Traverse of Classic Haute Route through French and Swiss Alps
-Solo of hogsback route on Mt. Hood, OR
-Solo of East Face of Mt. Lassen, CA
-Solo of Cascade Gulch route on Mount Shasta, CA
-Denali, ascending the upper west rib, descending the Orient Express(S5-)
-The Ribbon (S5) on Devil’s Castle at Alta, UT
-Wyatt Couloir (S5+) Wasatch Backcountry, UT
-Mineral Peaks Central Couloir & The Fin, Beartooth Mountains, MT
-Avalanche Gulch route on Mt. Shasta, CA
-Mountaineers Route on Mt. Whitney, CA
-85 descents, Andrew McLean’s “Chuting Gallery”, 12 (S5) rated couloirs
-Three second ski descents Sam Ford Fjord area, Baffin Island, BC
-Six first ski descents Sam Ford Fjord area, Baffin Island including “Brave New World” (S5) and “Narrow-minded” (S5+)
-First and only completion, “Supercoaster”, 20 mile traverse of the Wasatch with 14K ft gain and descent including Lone Peak (S5), Coalpit (S4), Twin Pks (S5), and Stairs Gulch (S4)
-First descent of “Lone Wolf” couloir, Wind River Mts, WY
-All 16 chutes in Wolverine Cirque in one day, Wasatch Mtns, UT
-Solo Kings Peak, 30 mile roundtrip in a day, Uintah Mtns, UT
-Several first descents in Matanuska Valley, Chugach Range, AK
-Descent of Mount Crosson, AK
-Attempted first descent of Mount Foraker’s Archangel Ridge, AK
-12 first descents in the remote Revelation Mountains, AK
-First and only descent of ‘Plinko’ (S6+A), Pfiefferhorn, Wasatch, Utah