During the recent annual meeting of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) in Smith Rock, Oregon, longtime guide and ski alpinist Bela Vadasz was presented with the AMGA Lifetime Achievement Award. Bela and Mimi Vadasz founded Alpine Skills International in…

Bill Briggs shouldn’t need much of an introduction. As the first person to ski the Grand Teton (1971), he’s the man who marks the beginning of modern ski mountaineering in the United States.

Still on the road from Washington, so a quick news roundup today as I’m blogging from the front passenger seat of the Versa. (Oh, that glare!) Last summer in Colorado, an Aspen Skiing Co. executive and two partners in Futuristic…

We’re somewhere north of Salt Lake City, still road tripping to Bellingham. Good memories of Wasatch backcountry skiing when we cruised through the basin yesterday. I was whipping out a Thursday news roundup this morning but went off on the…

Ski touring news covering avalanche center fund raising and developments at WildSnow dot com including a mobile version of backcountry skiing website.

A fire hose of money sluiced on wildfires has become the economic sugar daddy for everything from whole towns, to small contractors with one pickup truck and water tank.