Every day is a good day to highlight a solid word. Today’s word is albedo. Along with that, we’ll get some context from the dust-on-snow events in Colorado.

Last month, WildSnow featured an accident in the Teton’s Sliver couloir. That story elicited some excellent discussion on communication norms in the backcountry, specifically when it comes to tighter, more high consequence lines when parties have to potential to drop…

The backcountry couloir theater has a limited carrying capacity. And the safety margins, once that capacity is met, are razor-thin: An Incident in the Teton’s Sliver Couloir.

It’s not exactly a slow news week for the NYT. Human-powered skiing stories make a three-peat in short order at the venerable paper is news.

With snow currently falling in Colorado, WildSnow reaches out to some avalanche forecasters to assess the snowpack as we move towards the winter solstice.

In this news roundup, there’s skimo, business cycles, profits and expenditures, a lost box of slides and thoughts of magical mountains.