Many of you WildSnowers have told me (both in public and in private) that the deal clincher with the new G3 Onyx backcountry skiing binding would be the availability and cost of the swap plates. Presumably so you can run a quiver of skis and save much treasure by not ripping your wallet for multiple bindings. This just in a few minutes ago from G3:
backcountry skiing
Backcountry skiing is THE top subject of WildSnow.com
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K2 Coomback skis first look, great skis for backcountry skiing
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Mount Rainier webcams to see what kind of weather the boys are experiencing during climb and ski descent via Fuhrer Finger.
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If you’ve traveled through the same Colorado (or most other western states) forests for decades, you’ve probably noticed they keep getting denser, overgrown, filled with snags and deadfall. Due to the environmental indoctrination I got at NOLS and elsewhere, I always thought that forests that dense were natural, that logging and otherwise managing for forest products was a sin, and that somehow convenient fires would clear things out once in a while. Boy, was I wrong.
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I didn’t want to mention it at first, but hey, I’m a blogger… I hitched a ride on some rich guy’s private jet and ended up in Germany over the last few days. Was amazed and disappointed to see that…
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(Editor’s Note: I’m over in Vail doing some trail research for hutski.com. Was going to just chatter away about some hiking I did yesterday, then this came in over the transom as an email. I figured the collective wisdom of…
