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Aspen’s community avalanche safety class is this weekend. Our family attended the class session last evening, and we’ll be out in the field today. The evening seminar was taught by Hallsted Morris from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). This…
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Review of how-to DVD teaching basics of avalanche rescue using a beacon transceiver beeper, specifically Backcountry Access.
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It’s a pet peeve of mine regarding avalanche safety: Over and over again I observe both snowmobilers and skiers grouping up in the backcountry when they should spread out because of avalanche hazard.
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Avalanche death and survival involves many factors, read about a few ideas here for skiing safety, including technique and gear.
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Avalanche safety and Lou Dawson’s wild ride in Highlands Bowl
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Sam Samuel Teetzen Avalanche Berthoud Pass Colorado
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Getting ski touring gear on a budget will help you enjoy the backcountry to the max, check out this shopping list.
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Ski touring on a budget is easy if you shop around, check out our tips and information for getting backcountry skiing gear at lowest prices.
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Shopping for backcountry skiing gear on a budget so you can afford to tour and do ski mountaineering, valuable information.
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A few early blog comments in the history of Wild Snow dot com, reader questions about all sorts of stuff.
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Statistics , if you backcountry ski with women in your group, you’re more likely to get killed in an avalanche (if you’re a man).
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The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is closed for the season even though we’ve got backcountry skiing avalanche danger all over the place, so in a strange twist the CAIC boys are now posting reports at the Teton Gravity Research web forums.
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Backcountry skiing on Hayden Peak near Aspen is a good bet for fun and mountain adventure.
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Hamish Gowans attempted to winter climb all Colorado 14,000 foot peaks in one calendar winter. He failed in his mission but did quite well in terms of what he did accomplish.
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As I’ve written about numerous times here at WildSnow dot com, It turns out that the more avalanche education you have, the more likely you are to get hurt or killed in an avalanche. So if someone tells you to “take an avalanche class,”
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Mount Princeton Backcountry Ski Descent – Colorado Fourteeners
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First person interview account of backcountry avalanche survival due to use of Black Diamond Avalung, deep burial for 20 minutes and amazing recovery.
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Avalanche save in France during backcountry skiing, survivor used Avalung to excellent effect.
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This accident was yet another that involved more than one person caught at a time. Unless it is absolutely necessary, we backcountry skiers need to keep our groups spread out, and expose only one person at a time to even moderate avy hazard
