Vermont Pain Relief

Vermont Pain Relief 24 years experience specializing in advanced manual techniques for pain relief and improved function.

My work is based on 3,000+ hours of training, 20,000+ clients/patients, and hundreds of treatments received. Dr. Kevin Duniho, DPT, LMT and associates specialize in advanced manual techniques for pain relief and improved function.

Loup-Garou is humbled by this great honor 😸Read his acceptance speech below👇“I was just out bird watching and somehow ma...
06/05/2025

Loup-Garou is humbled by this great honor 😸
Read his acceptance speech below👇
“I was just out bird watching and somehow made it into Vermont’s weekly newspaper without even trying, yawn…” L-G

Dry tool free soloing Central Gully with skis on my back and ski poles in hand was definitely one of the trickiest thing...
04/27/2025

Dry tool free soloing Central Gully with skis on my back and ski poles in hand was definitely one of the trickiest things I think I’ve ever done and is dumber and less appealing than it sounds. Not something I will repeat but i’m kind of in awe looking back that after 2+ hours of being absolutely gripped I actually topped out and survived. I forgot to turn GoPro off so I have a ton of horrible footy like this first video and then my battery died just as I was dropping The Lip skiing 🙄
It was a fun adventure though and a route I’d like to follow with full coverage snow.
Hopefully headed back to soon for a more straight forward
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Still recovering from our 9th Chic Choc trip! Its always a good time for many reasons: getting away from the US, shoppin...
03/31/2025

Still recovering from our 9th Chic Choc trip! Its always a good time for many reasons: getting away from the US, shopping in Quebec grocery stores, the exchange rate, but foremost getting an extension of winter and skiing novel lines in a quieter place with amazing views!

I won’t say anything more about this line other than that I’ve wanted to ski it for years and it was really difficult and long to get into on a suboptimal day. 3” of fluff on no-fall steep ice made the photos look fluffy but the videos tell another story! The pitch is definitely steeper than resources say and the entry was a bit puckering. As I approached the line I recorded a video of my feelings about it which is not something I normally do. Given the significance, effort and risk I felt it was appropriate to document how I felt and what it meant to me.
A note on the risk: It may be nothing to some skiers but on this day it definitely seemed scary because of the ice and how steep the entry was. I was solo and had skied 6 miles but had 8.5 miles to get back to the Ski Van. I didn’t see anyone the whole tour. I enjoy going out by myself getting to go as fast or slow as I want and being able to really focus on a mission. Its hard to find people that match with all the characteristics needed and our schedules. I know that I could get into trouble but part of the challenge is the fine line between risk and staying safe. I definitely had an internal dialogue going on that was verging on physical expression of my anxiety. It spiked when I got above treeline and saw the enormity of the objective and how committing it was. I was telling myself it was ok even though I knew it might not be. Fortunately, through many years of biking, skiing, climbing and other random things somehow I’ve made the right decisions and the right actions to back it up. I’ve imagined what it would be like to f**k up, get injured, be unprepared and be faced with an epic battle for survival. Hopefully I will never have to experience such a thing.
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My   from other lenses. Thanks Dan Houde and .j.bennett I wasn’t the fastest so all cameras weren’t pointed at me. I was...
03/21/2025

My from other lenses. Thanks Dan Houde and .j.bennett
I wasn’t the fastest so all cameras weren’t pointed at me. I wasn’t the slowest so they were still out on the mountain. Happy to see a few and appreciate that they were posted for posterity.

 I don’t have any video or pix that could do this effort justice. Definitely the hardest thing I’ve done in a long while...
03/15/2025


I don’t have any video or pix that could do this effort justice. Definitely the hardest thing I’ve done in a long while! I was intrigued that it sounded like a “real” skimo race. Most skimo races are just running around on little skis and transitioning alot. This one promised to be legit if weather cooperated. We had an absolutely perfect weekend for it with deep snowpack, full sun and temps above freezing at the summit.
It started with a 2500’ vert skin up to the base of the Headwall where we clipped into a fixed line. Definitely needed ice axe, crampons and the line! There was a bit of an ice bulge that created a short near vertical section. The woman below me got to test how well her prusik knot worked! The guy above me lost his skis off his pack just after starting and had to start over. This definitely caused a delay but I just rested and drank more. After the climb we skinned towards the summit before a little more booting. There was a wind whipping up and just after a summit building I heard a godawful sound like an airbus coming over the ridge for a crash landing! A gust up to 100mph pelted me with rime ice from a tower! The struggle through the wind was real. Touched the summit and started running back down to the alpine descent with gates down the Lip. Mashed potatoes were really hard to ski here with skimo skis. Once in the bowl we headed down Little Headwall over to Hillmans. At this point, I was really done, ready to quit but had another 1000’+ vert to boot. Sun was out and I was overheating most of the day. Never seen Hillmans so full. It was really nice. The final descent was over 3100’ from the top of Hillmans down the Sherb to Pinkham. I had to stop multiple times because my legs hurt so much! Thanks to Mount Washington Avalanche Center for putting this on!

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Can’t remember having a better ski tour than this! Seemed like a couple feet of fresh back here around the corner from A...
02/17/2025

Can’t remember having a better ski tour than this! Seemed like a couple feet of fresh back here around the corner from Alpental. In the trees it was steep and deep but higher up it was mellow and very aesthetic. Thanks to for showing us a classic tour and for being an indefatigable ski buddy.
First time skiing the PNW and hope to be back! Fortunately returning to an epic east coast winter if we can just get a flight. Our scheduled flight was cancelled but too late to stay in the mountains for another day of touring:(

Snowgoat Vertfest skimo race start and preliminary results. It was a spicy course we set yesterday! Anyone finishing thi...
02/16/2025

Snowgoat Vertfest skimo race start and preliminary results.
It was a spicy course we set yesterday! Anyone finishing this race is a good skier. Even the uphill was tricky. Dropping into the first downhill was a crux in a half.
Most of the penalties assessed were for not having beacon in suit/harness or missing mandatory items. One guy just overtly refused to transition inside the transition zone after multiple instructions so we had to add 30 sec to his time. As referees, we’re not interested in creating a bad vibe especially for recreational level athletes but every rule has a reason that is usually for safety or to keep things fair for everyone. A lot of people got warnings about poles not being placed down on snow at transitions. Poles get easily knocked over and potentially broken by other skiers or simply interfere. Its also much quicker to transition if you’re not holding onto your poles which plenty of people were doing. Being fully inside the transition zone is important so that incoming skiers don’t start piling up in the pre-transition area.
Overall, everything went well from cooperation with the venue, organizer, and volunteers. Conversations about what we can do to improve are already happening!

Vertfest skimo race course setting and inspection with    Big day yesterday on 4 hours of sleep after a late night fligh...
02/15/2025

Vertfest skimo race course setting and inspection with
Big day yesterday on 4 hours of sleep after a late night flight from Boston. Today is race day!

Its -21f real feel.  Do you sleep in with your partner and cat or go catch alpenglow? Haven’t skied in 5 days so…
12/13/2024

Its -21f real feel. Do you sleep in with your partner and cat or go catch alpenglow? Haven’t skied in 5 days so…

In search of wild ice but only found  also looking for it. I think he was ready to literally wait for it to freeze befor...
11/04/2024

In search of wild ice but only found also looking for it. I think he was ready to literally wait for it to freeze before his eyes but we had to go home to Loup-Garou.
I last skated up here on Jan 1, 2021. I installed Dynafit AT bindings to my skates so we could just use one boot for approach & skate. Having serious crampons on ski boots that day was crucial so it worked out great. Downside was snagging a crampon spike and tripping which led to jumping off a 4’ ledge to dry rock which made me slam my teeth together. I saved it from taking a header with inevitable consequences but the impact led to breaking a superior lateral incisor off which required multiple visits to an oral surgeon and dentist over the next 2 years and several hundred dollars out-of pocket while the insurance company paid out several thousand! Worth it, 😂
Bound & determined to skate this lake again…

Last day of wintery pow before hot pow set in! Sunday at PMDS was definitely a  . Not much vert or angle but we had a fo...
04/11/2024

Last day of wintery pow before hot pow set in! Sunday at PMDS was definitely a . Not much vert or angle but we had a foot of fresh pow all to ourselves on a perfectly sunny morning.
The staff said it was going to be the last day of skiing for the season. I said, “not for us!” They responded, “Where will you ski? Because we are the only place in Quebec still with snow.” 😂 I just smiled and walked away because I had pow to ski and can’t deal.

 #2023   out
01/03/2024

#2023 out

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