Tips for early season tech binding checks, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair.
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Guide to buying used skis, bindings, boots and skins. How to check wear and tear. How to choose best setup for you.
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In this excerpt of The Ski Guide Manual Rob Coppolillo offers insight on the ski day debrief and using near misses as learning opportunities.
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How can psychological studies inform positive team building in backcountry settings? Tips for building positive team culture.
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Reasons to hire a ski guide including terrain knowledge, efficiency and value, knowledge, mentorship and more, based on informal survey.
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Excerpt from Rob Coppilillo’s Ski Guide Manual on how to plan for and develop a terrain use mindset for ski touring, used by IFMGA guides.
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.
