March 2005

10 Tips for Spring Backcountry Skiing and ski touring in the mountains, including sunscreen and hats.

Back from backcountry skiing today here in central Colorado. We looked for corn snow, found a few silky turns, but mostly found difficult variable conditions. We rated overall avy danger as considerable because of heat, so didn’t get much done.…

According to the well known one-handed alpinist and backcountry skier, he completed the peaks over March 3-9 and had ‘excellent weather… stable snow…spring-like conditions on many aspects.’

Naxo binding durability update: I got a chuckle when I was checking the TGR forums to see what they were talking about. Person posted this, and mentioned they broke their “fragile” Naxos during what appears to be a Darwin Awards…

We immediately wondered if the guide had lost control of the group in some way (perhaps simply because the victim chose not to follow his instructions.