Beyond the Aahhh’s
Loading ...Mike Hattrup finds his first rock climb, alpine ascent, and ski mountaineering objective can all be seen from one hotel room in Verbier….very near his first ski descent in Chamonix for the Blizzard of Aahhh’s.
About Mike Hattrup
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Mike Hattrup currently works as the Global Director for K2’s Adventure category and as a consultant for Outdoor Research. As one of the first Americans to become a fully certified AMGA Ski Mountaineering Guide, Hattrup currently guides trips for Pro Guiding Service in the European Alps, Canada and Washington's Cascades. He first cut his teeth as a guide for Rainier Mountaineering and has climbed Washington’s Mt. Rainier 28 times and also stood atop North America’s highest peak, Denali. After winning the Ford Sport Trac Challenge, Hattrup donated his winnings—a new Ford Sport Trac—to the AMGA to create the Hattrup Ski Mountaineering Scholarship, an endowment which provides ongoing tuition for guide education.
Hattrup is a former mogul specialist for the US Freestyle Ski Team, and starred in over a dozen ski films. His travels in search of fresh tracks have taken him to Turkey, Norway, Bolivia, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Greenland, Canada, Norway and all of the alpine countries of Central Europe.
2008 Backcountry magazine’s Hall of Fame
2006 Powder magazine’s “48 Most Influential Skiers of Our Time”
1998 Powder magazine’s “50 Best Skiers in North America”
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Behind the Aahhh’s
Loading ...We’d been in Chamonix for over a week, chewing up record snowfall via the lifts. With the upper mountain closed by storm clouds, I didn’t comprehend the dose of mountain reality I was about to experience.
Hattrup Channel, Episode 1
Loading ...A stylish Seattle Sombrero, a neon unisuit, and the birth of skiing beyond the lifts…
