December 2021

First Look: Zoleo enters the satellite communication market with a tidy card-deck size unit that provides messaging capabilities when off the grid.

With snow currently falling in Colorado, WildSnow reaches out to some avalanche forecasters to assess the snowpack as we move towards the winter solstice.

Book review of Lowell Skoog’s “Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest,” in which the author covers the fabric of the region’s backcountry skiing history.

Mountain guide Rob Coppolillo offers up his thoughts after moving from Chamonix, the Madison Square Garden of guiding, to the more lush Pacific Northwest.

For glacier travel and hauling loads, Petzl’s Traxions have impressed. They’ve now gone one-lighter with the release of the 52g Nano Traxion.

The skimo World Cup begins on Dec. 16th. Colorado’s Grace Staberg has an update from France where she has been training on the Tignes Glacier.