Gregory Goes There

The crew over at Gregory is still figuring out their new back yard.

Not quite sure what would be in shape on a recent weekend - the skiing or the climbing - Director of Product Development John Sears and Designer CJ Whittaker loaded both rock and ski gear into the car and headed into the Sierras to see what they could find. They didn’t know if the snow would be quite set up for spring skiing, but if it wasn’t, they figured the rock at nearby Lover’s Leap would be worth an afternoon.

 They saw a peak.

 Conditions looked good.

 They went for it.

 Some hours and little bushwacking later, they knocked off a ski descent of a Sierra classic - 9,735-foot Mt. Tallac.

 Photos of John getting the goods - and making sure the Gregory Targhee, the ski pack he designed, works as it should (it does) - are courtesy of CJ.

Said Sears: “It’s not that we weren’t quite sure where we were going, it’s that we don’t know the area at all yet. This is where we ended up.”

As for getting to know a place, there’s only one way to learn …