backcountry skiing

There is nothing that can improve your backcountry skiing day more than copious and frequent use of ski wax. At home, hot-wax and scrape your skis as frequently as

Hhigh altitude sun can damage your eyes as well as your skin. Short term, you can sunburn your eyes and become snow blind, learn how to protect yourself.

10 Tips for Spring Backcountry Skiing and ski touring in the mountains, including sunscreen and hats.

Back from backcountry skiing today here in central Colorado. We looked for corn snow, found a few silky turns, but mostly found difficult variable conditions. We rated overall avy danger as considerable because of heat, so didn’t get much done.…

According to the well known one-handed alpinist and backcountry skier, he completed the peaks over March 3-9 and had ‘excellent weather… stable snow…spring-like conditions on many aspects.’

Naxo binding durability update: I got a chuckle when I was checking the TGR forums to see what they were talking about. Person posted this, and mentioned they broke their “fragile” Naxos during what appears to be a Darwin Awards…