Whether to wear your beacon in your pocket or in a chest harness is ultimately a personal choice, but each option has its pros and cons.
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Reviving climbing skins in the field. Basic prevention to dealing with a full climbing skin failure. Tips to keep your backcountry ski tour going.
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Tips on how to incorporate the avalanche forecast in your trip planning to move safely through avalanche terrain in group setting.
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Celebrating minimal danger ski touring in low angle powder and tips on how to plan mellow backcountry ski tours.
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Tips to keep your feet warm in sub zero temps including boot liners, socks, nutrition, overboots and more.
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Five tips for skin track success when ski touring safely in the backcountry. Craft an efficient skin track to avoid avalanche terrain and danger.
Tips & Tricks is the home of WildSnow’s extensive library of how-tos. You’ll find info on ski touring basics like how to do a kickturn, endurance fitness and nutrition, and granular level gear mods. WildSnow’s Tips & Tricks is also where you’ll find deep dives into what to bring on extended ski expeditions or on a fast and light smash-and-grab ski mission. And if you’re looking for ideas on using Voile straps to attach a ski or splitboard to your bike? We’ve even got that covered. The archives here at WildSnow run deep.
We’re open to suggestions to expand this department; let us know what tips & tricks you’d like to see.
