News about poaching ski lines and snow avalanches that people had trouble avoiding.

Discuss how safe backcountry skiing gear really is, and how it could be improved.

Dawn patrol this morning. Up at 4:00 AM then a few laps in Little Cottonwood Canyon with Louie and friends Poly, Andrew and Penn before heading to the trade show.

Louie and I headed up to Days Fork from Alta today. This popular area tends to be a circus on weekends, but I find weekdays up there to be totally reasonable. (Being from where a “crowd” is 3 other cars…

Garmont Endorphin is a good example of the interesting (but some would say bothersome) trend of most randonnee gear becomming as beefy as alpine gear. These things really are an alpine boot with a rando sole. Very stylish and useful…

Rick Wyatt to left, holding forth with some funny tale about his life as a mountain man, Andrew to right. Rick is known as the guy who in 1982 did a ski descent of the Grand Teton using leather nordic…