"Contour"

Climbing skins: underrated and totally essential to your ski touring kit. Here, we bust 5 climbing skin myths and offer tips for buying your next pair.

Springtime fun at the Kokanee hut, ski touring Crazy Mary and KGR couloirs and more excellent skiing.

Ski descent of Mount Sneffels, Colorado, using Wright Cabin in Yankee Boy Basin, early 1980s Colorado ski mountaineering history.

Review of ski touring year 2016-2017 everything from backcountry avalanche safety to new boots.

Review of ‘Backcountry Ski and Snowboard Routes Colorado’ by Brittany and Frank Konsella, encyclopedic work covering many ski touring routes.

Red Line Traverse, backcountry skiing along the crest of the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada range in California.

Review of ski touring new year predictions for 2016, how did Lou do with his crystal ball, re airbag backpacks and more.

Scientific testing of ski touring climbing skins reveals fairly obvious conclusions, but with some fine grained numbers that are quite interesting for backcountry skiers.

Information for ski touring around Rogers Pass and Revelstoke, Canada.

Shape of ski climbing skins can help with weight and glide, many choices available from skinny to wide.

Sometimes the wild snow is mellow, checking out a 10th Mountain hut in Colorado, McNamara ski touring from Aspen.

G3 Via adjustable carbon aluminium ski poles reviewed for backcountry ski touring.

Ski touring Christmas holiday shopping, last minute ideas for the backcountry skier in your life, including radios and magazines.

Review of Fisher Profoil climbing skins that are ski climbing aid for touring and backcountry skiing, fish scale and Crown base for traction, but removable for the downhill.

Article and speech by Aspen skiing designer and pioneer Andre Roch, detailing his and Langes exploration and consulting work circa 1936.

Review of the Fitwell’s updated design features on their splitboarding boot for backcountry touring.

Ski touring climbing skins are in a crazy spate of changes and improvements, check out High Trails, Montana, Contour and more.

Athletic foods and weekend fun at WildSnow dot com, always fun to experiment with fuel for ski touring.