October 2006

A common theme in the WildSnow related emails we get is that of parents wondering how kids end up loving the backcountry, specifically skiing in the backcountry. They see the shots and descriptions of our and friend’s kids out yucking…

I’ve been working with Vintage Ski World for the last few months, doing a re-design their website and launch of their upgraded webstore. As of yesterday their online shopping is now supported by the easy to use and reliable Volusion…

Press release out today, our beloved Independence Pass is closed for the season. The goods are up there. Terrific backcountry skiing when it snows, incredible rock climbing and hiking if we get more Indian summer. But is Indy really closed?…

The amount of snow in Montezuma Basin, Colorado is of historic proportions. Pack is easily 48 inches overall, with areas of six or more feet in the lee of the classic fetches that build the “glacier” we ski on in the summer.

Spy photo taken in the Life-Link workshop after mounting Dynafit bindings used on Mount Everest by the DesLauriers and Chin. The skis are Volkl T-Rock. Well, if this isn’t the final word on Dynafit, I don’t know what is. I…

Kit DesLauriers has become the first woman to ski off the summit of Mount Everest, but was not able to make an all-snow all-ski complete descent to match that of Davo Karnikar in 2000. According to the expedition report, “the…