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Alaskan backcountry skiing from the Backside Glacier, excellent ski mountaineering.

I’ve always have a place in my snow lovin’ heart for Mount Hood, Oregon, having first skied it for the first time while in the Northwest working for Outward Bound, and another time during my honeymoon in 1985 (and today…

Colorado Ski Hall of Fame backcountry candidate is Knox Williams, co-author of “The Avalanche Book.”

Getting a good weather forecast that can be interpreted for mountaineering is a challenge in many areas of the country. Recently I’ve been intrigued by the National Weather Service’s point forecasts. These are fine tuned to work on a 2.5…

Saturday we drove down to southern Colorado for a try at El Diente Peak, a fourteener near the town of Telluride that’s not particularly tough to ski, but has a lengthy approach with more than its fair share of avalanche…

We had another brown snow/rain a few days ago. These seem to come with more regularity than they used to, perhaps because of land in Utah stripped to bare dirt by wildfires or something like that. When these dust layers…