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It is that time of year: Gift Guide season. Sales abound, Black Friday extends to Monday, and there’s a scurry to infill gifts for those who made the short-list. In the build-up to no matter what you celebrate, the solstice, which we suppose from an available daylight metric is something to observe, goes down in the Northern Hemisphere at 1:47 PM Dec. 21. You still have time to think of others. Let the gifting begin.

The 1000g class of touring boots has expanded in the past few years. Here’s our 2022-2023 gear guide for the lightweight class of backcountry boots.

Ski Trab is the real deal for ski and bindings combos for use deep in the mountains. We have an initial look at the Magico.2 ski, Titan Vario.2 bindings, and precut skins.

The boots, skis, skins, and bindings can set you back. Here’s some on-a-budget gift ideas for the backcountry skiers or riders in your life.

Reviving climbing skins in the field. Basic prevention to dealing with a full climbing skin failure. Tips to keep your backcountry ski tour going.

Five tips for skin track success when ski touring safely in the backcountry. Craft an efficient skin track to avoid avalanche terrain and danger.

Ski touring gift guide featuring books on backcountry skiing, electronics for ski tourers, maple syrup fuel, instant coffee and more.

In-depth tutorial of steep skiing techniques including Doug Coomb’s “Folding Pole”, the Pedal Hop Turn and fundamental body positions.

How can psychological studies inform positive team building in backcountry settings? Tips for building positive team culture.

Tips on mental and physical fall ski touring preparation and commentary on the “wicked” backcountry, excerpted from The Ski Guide Manual.

Using a Run Atlas for route planning and decision making in backcountry ski touring.

Getting that IFMGA guide pin, retreating Arctic sea ice, carbon offsets for travel, becoming an American in Chamonix: Rob Coppolillo tells it

Technical review of Dynafit TLT 7 TLT7 ski touring boot, could be their best scaffo yet, we are impressed by many features.

How to home mount install the Silvretta Pure ski touring backcountry binding, including tips and tricks to align the binding perfectly on your skis.

Lay explanation of DIN ISO ski binding standards 13992 and 9462 for ski touring and backcountry mountaineering, safety and testing.

Review of Plum Yak ski bindings for alpine touring in the backcountry.

Backcountry skiing preparation, picking new skis from Voile, Black Diamond, Dynafit, Trab, and so many more, we’re expecting tons of snow.

In this excerpt of The Ski Guide Manual Rob Coppolillo offers insight on the ski day debrief and using near misses as learning opportunities.

Excerpt from Rob Coppilillo’s Ski Guide Manual on how to plan for and develop a terrain use mindset for ski touring, used by IFMGA guides.