Kevin and two friends hiking a trail through a valley below snowy Himalayan peaks in Nepal

Talent, Oregon 42.25° N, 122.79° W

Kevin Jantzer

Software engineer • Photographer • Designer • Outdoor junkie

Nepal, 2024

I build software at Blackstone Publishing in Ashland, Oregon. The rest of the time I'm out in the mountains with a camera, on a pair of skis, or on anything with a motor.

Kevin on a snowmobile loaded with skis, with snowy ridges and Mt. McLoughlin behind — Southern Oregon Backcountry

Day job
Senior software engineer
Camera
Landscapes, ski days, races
Winter
Backcountry skiing & sleds
Year-round
Ultimate with SOUPA

01 — Work

Things I've built

posynotes.app

Posy

Notes, checklists and recipes that scale and convert units, plus invites to send and notebooks to share with the people you live with. It stays in sync across phone, tablet and computer, and works offline.

Try Posy

Mountain Report

A side project to help with my other hobbies: skiing and snowmobiling in the backcountry. Forecasts come from weather.gov, photos from road cams and ski resorts, and snow depth, temperature and SWE from SNOTEL sites.

Launch Mountain Report

splitcalc.app

SplitCalc

An effortless pace calculator for runners, swimmers and other distance athletes. Enter a pace and see your splits from 400 meters to the marathon.

Open SplitCalc

bui.js.org

Blackstone UI

Web components, classes and utilities for building single-page PWAs with Lit. It's the foundation for the apps we build at Blackstone Publishing.

View BUI

05 More on GitHub Backbone.js plugins, Lit components, and other odds and ends.

02 — Photos

Out there

See every album

03 — Video

Rolling

Creek Boat 11: a mini jet boat charging up a flooded creek

The series

Creek Boating

Taking mini jet boats up whitewater creeks around Southern Oregon and Northern California. Some episodes are full of Class IV rapids and flood water. Others are mostly broken driveshafts, dead batteries and sinking boats.

Views: 1.1M+
Ep. 11: 800K+

Watch the series