Learning about ski touring and backcountry skiing is a task with many paths, mentorship is perhaps the most important.
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Tyson Bradley is a Utah ski mountaineer who did pioneer descents in the 1990s, this profile was done during the height of his ski mountaineering career.
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Expanding Waistlines — progression, regression, or reinventing the wheel in ski widths
by Lou Dawsonby Lou DawsonSki widths have changed greatly over the years, here is an overview from 1996 before the wider ski revolution took off.
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Battle of the Bulge — Mountaineering past mid-life can be done, albeit with some thought to unique issues.
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S System for rating ski descents was developed in Europe, it is a flawed system but in wide use, described here for ski mountaineering.
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Backcountry skiing on Columbia Icefield, Canada, including ski tour of Snow Dome, adventures of a married couple backcountry skiing.
Blog posts older than about 15 years.
