After hearing about huge snowfalls in the San Juan Mountains of south central Colorado, I’ve been eager to head down there and see if we could get an unusual early season peak descent. So we drove south on Friday with…
backcountry skiing
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Decision making process the Canadian Avalanche Center is calling their “Avalanche Decision Framework for Amateur Recreationalists” or ADFAR for short. Latest development in this is their “Avaluator” decision support card.
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Back to Pearl Basin, Colorado for some backcountry skiing today. Wind has hammered things pretty good, variable conditions to say the least.
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Cloudveil softshell pants review for backcountry skiing and mountaineering, soft shell is terrific.
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Halloween at WildSnow.com world headquarters. Reinhold Messner in his media tent after first oxygenless ascent of Mount Everest. Lou DawsonWildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He…
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Skiing the last few days out of Crested Butte, we skied the tighter chute mostly shaded just to the right of the big sunny face,run is about 2,500 vert and 40+ degrees.
