Advice for backcountry skiers and ski tourers, boots and bindings along with avalanche safety and ski museum information.

Here is a wild one: One of Colorado’s most prolific rock climbing pioneers is a guy named Harvey Carter. Back in my early 20s, Harvey mentored me for a while and

This weekend is the third annual 24 Hours of Sunlight endurance ski race, at our nearby Sunlight Resort. Things have really ramped up this year. They’ve got upwards of 276 racers registered as of this morning, in 79 teams.

Today, on WildSnow Myth Busters: Avy Myth #2, If I’m buried in an avalanche, I’ll just snuggle in my nice little snow hole till my friends dig me out. In my experience, quite a few backcountry skiers don’t understand the…

We were going to publish an Axon on-snow review today, but realized we need to sit down, lean back, breath a big sigh, and feel the glow of WildSnow’s first millennium. Yep, today is blog post 1000 (counted as actual…

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