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Backcountry skiing and ski touring news, growing glaciers, fund raising parties and other interesting tidbits from the mountain world.

My pickup rumbles into Maroon Lake day parking at 3:35 AM, with Louie snoozing in the rear seat and me just barely awake with the help of alien stories on Coast to Coast radio. With a glance at the night…

Knox Williams, Colorado’s statewide avalanche hazard forecasting pioneer is the backcountry skiing inductee to Colorado’s Ski Hall of Fame.

Snowpack is not dissimilar to the Sierra, in that the midpack appears to be stable even without much of a nightly freeze.

Ethics of filming dangerous skiing for profit, in the backcountry and avalanche terrain.