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Update, March 3. Wow. Rocky Mountain Rescue Group (RMRG) persevered and solved the mystery of the ghost personal locator beacon (PLB) that’s been plaguing them like something from a cheap horror film. Individuals from RMRG used radio signal locator equipment…

Randonnee backcountry skiing race gear rules, boots and bindings.

Ski Trab factory visit in Bormio, Italy, ski for ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing

Backcountry skiing news roundup covers lodges, and huts along with Andrew McLean.

Celebrating the induction of backcountry skier and avalanche expert Knox Williams into the Colorado Ski Snowboard Hall of Fame.

We attended the annual Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame gala this past Saturday. This is indeed a Colorado event, but always goes out of state boundaries in many ways. John Atkins is perhaps the most far reaching inductee…

(Preamble: I’m skipping around the “10 Things” list as resources become available, so today is #3.) “If your friend’s out of shape you’re dead.” That’s the take at Backcountry Access (BCA) about avalanche rescue shoveling (makers of Tracker avy beacons…

Sell your snowmobile, trade in your SUV and orient to mass transit, it’s the ski lift bus! I was placing products on the Vintage Ski World webstore today and ran across this image made back in the 1950s by famed…

The amount of knowledge we have about snow avalanches has increased immensely over the past several decades. Using this information, experts are constantly reformulating survival techniques and devising improved safety gear. The Avalung came out of knowledge that avalanche victims…