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Best Touring Packs for Guides and Daytrippers

March 3, 2025 1 comment

Backpacks and the backcountry go hand in hand. Or, strap in strap, or whatever analogy you’d like to make to emphasize how naked you’ll feel in the backcountry without a pack to carry the necessary tools to rescue your friends…

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Moment Wildcat 108 Tour Long-Term Ski Review

February 10, 2025 0 comment

Moment’s Wildcat Evolves into Its Latest And Lightest Form   The Moment Wildcat 108 Tour lives up to its predecessor’s rep as a versatile powder-touring ski   The Wildcat is Moment’s not-just-for-powder, powder ski. Originally known as the Bibby, it was…

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Much more than a steep ski: Fischer Transalp 92 CTI Long-Term Review

January 31, 2025 2 comments

The 23/24 Transalp Pro revamp adds more muscle, durability, and skiability for all terrain, especially steeps. My touring partner and I botched the timing on a morning mission in Colorado’s Gore Range towards the end of last season. After booting…

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The Ortovox Tour 40 Pack: A Lightweight, High-Volume E-Airbag for Big Days

January 17, 2025 2 comments

For backcountry skiers and splitboarders looking for a higher-volume, low-weight electronic airbag, Ortovox’s AVABAG Litric Tour 40 is one of only a few options. The pack utilizes the LiTRIC system, a lightweight electronic airbag system co-developed by Ortovox and Arc’teryx…

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Beyond the Basics: Packing For Your 1st or 51st Hut Trip

January 15, 2025 0 comment

You already have the essentials covered. Beacon, shovel, probe, first aid kit, and so on. Maybe you’ve been on multi-day hut trips, or perhaps this is your first time packing for one. This article isn’t intended to explain the basics…

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The Best Ski Touring Sunglasses for Uphill and Downhill

January 7, 2025 10 comments

I truly needed goggles in the backcountry once last season. The wind was absolutely whipping, the light was perfectly flat, and I was downright nervous about the Gore Range couloir we were trying to find along a ridge of indistinguishable…

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  • Polar Star Inn Hut Report: Mellow Skiing and Epic Sunsets

    by Bergen Tjossem March 7, 2025
    by Bergen Tjossem March 7, 2025

    I searched “huts” in the Wildsnow search bar and it didn’t take much scrolling or convincing for me to fill a morning with hut reports and tales of shacks and shelters. From Noah Howell’s jungle dancing French Ridge Hut story…

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  • ARVA Recalls Neo BT Pro Transceiver

    by Justin Park January 31, 2025
    by Justin Park January 31, 2025

    In an article about the 2024 Mammut and Black Diamond/Pieps beacon recalls, I said that ARVA was the only major transceiver company that hadn’t had a product recall. Unfortunately, that statement only remained true for a few months as the…

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  • Wolverine Split Sticks: A Terrific Telescopic Pole For The Hard-Charging Splitboarder

    by Drew Zieff January 2, 2025
    by Drew Zieff January 2, 2025

    A splitboarder tired of breaking his poles gives his first impressions of Wolverine Snow Products’  three-piece Split Sticks. Woe is the splitboarder. We’re less efficient backcountry travelers than our two-planking brethren, and, it seems to me, more prone to equipment…

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  • First Impressions: Arc’teryx’s New Micon Litric 42 Electronic Airbag Pack

    by Bergen Tjossem December 11, 2024
    by Bergen Tjossem December 11, 2024

    When I first picked up the new Arc’teryx Micon Litric 42 airbag pack at a trade show over the summer, I thought to myself, that’s kind of heavy for a ski touring backpack. Then I saw the “LiTRIC” label and…

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  • Ski Touring Pants Guide: Softshells, Hardshells, and Hybrids

    by Bergen Tjossem December 9, 2024
    by Bergen Tjossem December 9, 2024

    A good pair of touring pants are the foundation of a backcountry ski kit. They’re the only component of a touring wardrobe where adding or shedding a layer is impractical, so you need to land at the trailhead confident that…

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  • Backcountry Ski Boots Buyer’s Guide: The Touring Boots Worth the Money

    by Bergen Tjossem November 27, 2024
    by Bergen Tjossem November 27, 2024

      Just $50 at a garage sale with only two broken buckles, my first backcountry ski boots (Garmont Radiums) were transformative compared to the two-mondo-sizes-too-big tele boots I had been using. I sometimes couldn’t tell the difference between walk mode…

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Gear Reviews

Best Touring Packs for Guides and Daytrippers

by Steve Andrews March 3, 2025
by Steve Andrews March 3, 2025

Moment Wildcat 108 Tour Long-Term Ski Review

by Sean Snyder February 10, 2025
by Sean Snyder February 10, 2025

Much more than a steep ski: Fischer Transalp 92 CTI Long-Term Review

January 31, 2025
by Bergen Tjossem January 31, 2025

The Ortovox Tour 40 Pack: A Lightweight, High-Volume E-Airbag for Big Days

January 17, 2025
by Drew Zieff January 17, 2025

The Best Ski Touring Sunglasses for Uphill and Downhill

January 7, 2025
by Bergen Tjossem January 7, 2025

Wolverine Split Sticks: A Terrific Telescopic Pole For The Hard-Charging Splitboarder

January 2, 2025
by Drew Zieff January 2, 2025

Avalanches

Ask a Forecaster: Q&A with CAIC’s Andrew McWilliams

by Justin Park March 10, 2024
by Justin Park March 10, 2024

Ask a Forecaster: CAIC’s Dylan Craaybeek

by The Editors Of Wildsnow February 13, 2024
by The Editors Of Wildsnow February 13, 2024

AspectAvy Aims to Simplify Backcountry Terrain Choice

December 4, 2023
by Justin Park December 4, 2023

Ron Perla’s Snow Science Path

February 12, 2023
by Jason Albert February 12, 2023

The Snowpack Picture Up North with Grant Statham

February 4, 2023
by Jason Albert February 4, 2023

A Discussion with Jerry Johnson on the Power of Social Media

January 19, 2023
by Jason Albert January 19, 2023

Trip Reports

  • A Small Hut for Big Skiing in the San Juans: Aladdin’s Lamp

    April 23, 2024
  • Revisiting a 2011 Trip Report: Adventure in the Pickets — Thread of Ice Ski Descent

    December 9, 2022

Avalanche Department

  • Ask a Forecaster: Q&A with CAIC’s Andrew McWilliams

    March 10, 2024

Tips & Tricks

  • Transition Efficiencies 101 with Tech Binding Heel Units

    January 6, 2023
  • Visualizing the Backcountry as a Splitboarder: Minimizing the Challenges of Movement by Anticipating Terrain

    December 5, 2022
  • TURBOCHARGE YOUR TRAILHEAD BEACON CHECK

    November 15, 2022

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