Had a nice morning of backcountry skiing this past Friday, on Cinnamon Pass in Colorado’s stupendous San Juan Mountains. Snow coverage in the ‘Juans is huge — hundreds of the higher lines are still in, though the snow surface is…

Report on central Colorado backcountry skiing access, spring opening of Lincoln Creek Road.

CDOT says the road damage is not as bad as first thought, latest is that the gates will open sometime today — in time for a fine weekend of backcountry skiing! Louis DawsonWildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Louis Dawson has…

Nope, it’s not April fools — a flood took out a bridge on the east side of Indy, and it’s closed till further notice. Talk about having your spring backcountry skiing plans dashed! Not all is lost, however. Now the…

Thank you CDOT! Now for a few weeks of prime backcountry skiing at one of the best locations in the western United States for spring ski mountaineering.

It’s been a WARM couple of days, but Colorado backcountry skiers are still getting it done by starting early in the morning, and going for high altitude on anything but northerly slopes (which have not been well compacted). NOAA weather…