Williams Peak near Sunlight Ski area and Glenwood Springs, Colorado is the destination. This low elevation areas has become popular for ski touring. It’s mostly avalanche safe because of low angles and timber, and isn’t as sexy as places like Utah, but it actually yields good ski touring if conditions are right.

Hhigh altitude sun can damage your eyes as well as your skin. Short term, you can sunburn your eyes and become snow blind, learn how to protect yourself.

Back from backcountry skiing today here in central Colorado. We looked for corn snow, found a few silky turns, but mostly found difficult variable conditions. We rated overall avy danger as considerable because of heat, so didn’t get much done.…

According to the well known one-handed alpinist and backcountry skier, he completed the peaks over March 3-9 and had ‘excellent weather… stable snow…spring-like conditions on many aspects.’

Naxo binding durability update: I got a chuckle when I was checking the TGR forums to see what they were talking about. Person posted this, and mentioned they broke their “fragile” Naxos during what appears to be a Darwin Awards…

We immediately wondered if the guide had lost control of the group in some way (perhaps simply because the victim chose not to follow his instructions.