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You can’t make it up. In what has to be one of the weirdest (and most fortunate) avalanche survival stories ever reported, three guys in Colorado ended up buried by a slide and were able to extricate themselves without outside…

Intuition ski boot liners 2008-2009 review, make your ski boots super comfortable.

2009 Outdoor Retailer show in SLC

Voile splitboard hardware and climbing skins review for backcountry riding

09/10 Dynafit Dy.N.A AT race boot review for randonnee racing and ski mountaineering

Huntsman Ridge backcountry skiing trip report

Ortovox S1 avalanche beacon review for backcountry skiing

When I mentioned to my Italian friend Paolo how G3 had been keeping their binding secret, and were releasing the new grabber via a global conference call, he said “what do they think this is, a new Ferrari or something?…

We’ll, the light wasn’t all bad. And even though I’d mistakenly brought someone else’s boots I could still ski (more on that below). The day started bluebird but became “inside the egg” toward the afternoon. Fritz had a plan to…

Backcountry skiing in Austria, you’d better be fast and fit and ready for some really good skiers, fun stuff.

Backcountry Access Tracker avalanche beacon for backcountry skiing

Dear Lou: Cory was a friend and my wife’s cousin. He worked ski patrol on Ajax (Aspen Mountain) for years. He’d spent a year patrolling at Chamonix and had an impressive climbing resume. He was a pro with tons of…

Editor’s note: A while back we ran a few guest blog avalanche stories. This one came in recently and we thought it worthy. I’ve skied out Castle Creek many times and the big ones lurking above always catch my attention.…

List of backcountry ski touring books for the mountaineer on your Christmas list or any other special ocasion.

Dynafit ZZeus AT boot fit and performance review, super solid boot for skiing and climbing

As many of you know, it’s been as dry as an overcooked pancake here in the west. But it is FINALLY storming today in Colorado. So perhaps this will be a repeat of last year, when the heavens held off…

This just in from Mike Hattrup, K2’s line director for AT/telemark. In a phone interview, Mike described how they’ll be overhauling their entire AT/telemark product line into one series of skis with less overlap, to be known as “K2 BackSide.”…