A nod to the Ramer Echo Avalanche Transceiver, a 1980s ski touring gem of a transceiver that’s lightweight with long battery life.

Polar bears, schooners, and unlimited ski potential: the Svalbard Archipelago is the adventurous backcountry skier’s dream destination.

Ski touring in the southern hemisphere, snowmobiles across wilderness lines, and Alex Honnold: the greatest climber in the world? It’s all intertwined in Lou’s latest news roundup.

Sports such as ski alpinism and climbing help us rise above mundane materialism. They themselves are still material, yet they help us rise to other levels of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit.

On a volcano ski trip around the Pacific Northwest, all the stoke in the world couldn’t surpass closed roads, rain, avi danger, down trees, and the simple fact that Northwest volcanos are actually very far apart.

The evolution of Wildsnow’s coverage of the wide world of ski touring. New site, new publication schedule and more.