It’s said that Black Diamond found our backcountry skiing epoxy test to be interesting. We hope it helps them with their knowledge base they use for customer support — and we hope all you blogsters found it useful — and got a chuckle out of it.

For years, we’ve used epoxy for the screws when mounting ski bindings — telemark and AT randonnee. Doing so yields a trouble free mount that never loosens, has better pull-out strength, and is totally sealed against moisture.

Seems like more avalanche accidents are happening this spring than during most years. The recent backcountry skiing tragedy,

We’re still in the Waaaasatch. Got out today for a classic backcountry skiing adventure north from Alta into the Cardiff area. Locals might classify it as a bit skied out — for these Colorado guests the backcountry skiing was fine!…

Journalists tour the Powder Keg ski mountaineering race course. Spent a nice day taking a tour of the Powder Keg randonnee backcountry skiing race course, (in general connecting Alta and Brighton ski areas). We didn’t do the whole pro course…