I convinced the young turk to share the lighter weight version of his emergency/repair kit (he has a bigger one for longer more remote trips). Problem is, after packing in the titanium mini cooking pot he likes, we can still…

We have a winner, good job Jeff! The excerpted photo is from Outside Magazine, January 1996, from a skiing skills essentials article by Michel Beaudry. Outside Magazine, January 1996, pp 52 & 53 The line from Schmidt’s head points to…

A first aid / repair kit for minimalists, used for backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering

Mounting Silvretta ski bindings and other frame bindings is fairly easy, but you have to do everything with care or you’ll have problems while ski touring.

Last week Lou was showing off his “modern” turns on Raspberry Peak. Capturing those turns on camera seemed to be his way of throwing the backcountry skiing gauntlet down.