MOUNTAIN MAN
harlie Sturgis is in the middle of a time-honored ski-town locals’ tradition when I reach him on a Sunday morning in late November—the shoulder-season desert pilgrimage. The 67-year-old veteran climber was in St. George, Utah, spending three days on the ropes before snow blanketed Park City, where he leads Mountain Trails Foundation, the nonprofit he co-founded in 1992. Sturgis has been there nearly every step of
