backcountry skiing

Italian backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering, guest blog by Steve Romeo.

We just got back from Zermatt, Switzerland and wanted to send you some photos you might post. I was amazed at the amount of snow — the second day of our trip a two day storm began and dumped 1 meter of snow.

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marketing program has always invoked cynicism on my part. After all, no matter how much wind power they buy or bio diesel they burn, a ski resort remains a fairly industrial operation that takes quite a bit of otherwise backcountry land

The Euro ski racing scene was kind of an eye opener. The resorts are huge, wide open and do almost no avalanche control work by North American standards. Add to that the mentality that avalanches are seen as an unavoidable act of God, and you begin to see why so many people die over there.

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