Ski touring news, glacier skiing on Mount Hood but heatwave in Italy melts summer snow, Utah Avalanche Center hires new director and Eddie Bauer ThinDown.
Monthly Archives
August 2017
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Skeats ski crampon review, simple device for climbing ice or hard snow while backcountry ski touring, simple and light weight, clever invention for skiing.
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10 tips and list for the first time ski touring bindings gear, including basics such as terminology and shopping choice options for tech and frame bindings, Dynafit, G3, more.
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Patent for a capacitor powered electric fan airbag backpack is now public, this appears to be a weight and performance safety game changer for ski touring.
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Review of Patagonia 850-fill down sleeping bag for snow camping and backcountry ski touring.
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Ski/bike combo: backcountry skiing on Mt. Hood, a volcano with the easiest accessible summer snow in the PNW, finishing with a downhill mountain bike ride on 4,000 feet of flowy singletrack descent.