Tag: Eric Carter

A Few Reasons Why Runners Should Try Skimo

| September 27, 2019 | Athletes, Events

Ski mountaineering and Ultimate Direction have become synonymous. We are the only U.S. brand used by skimo athletes around the world including Europe where the sport has its strongest footing. We have just launched our next skimo vest called the…

Ski mountaineering and Ultimate Direction have become synonymous. We are the only…

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What is Aerobic Alpinism? Eric Carter Explains

| July 6, 2018 | Athletes

Story by Eric Carter: Ultimate Direction Ambassador, Ski Mountaineer, Alpinist and Mountain Runner I’ll never be a cutting edge climber or alpinist. I just don’t climb that hard. I’ll also never be a world class pure endurance athlete. All that leaves me is to search out a niche that requires the use of my endurance on relatively easy but still technical terrain. This has lead me…

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What You Need to Know About Ski Mountaineering

| March 23, 2018 | Events, Interviews

It’s the eve of the Grand Traverse, a classic backcountry skiing race from the bottom of Crested Butte Mountain Resort to the bottom of Aspen Mountain. The course travels the Elk Mountains Range with around 8,000 feet of climbing over 40 miles. As a sponsor of the Grand Traverse and fanatic of the sport, we asked UD ski mountaineering ambassadors for advice on how to…

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Eric Carter: 2017 SkiMo Season Wrap Up

Gina Lucrezi | May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized

by: Eric Carter Looking back in my training diary, it is interesting remembering some of my early-season training sessions and realizing that they feel like they were so long ago. We were incredibly lucky this season to have snowfall in early October. It wasn’t long before we were able to ski down to the valley and by the end of October, ski training was in…