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Cascade mountains backcountry skiing. Stevens Pass received over 13 inches of rainfall on January 6th and 7th. A Youtube video showed some guys at Alpental on Snoqualmie Pass riding tubes in the flowing water of the Alpental Road, between the snowbanks. Across I-90 an avalanche of the entire snowpack and landslide on a ski run at Hyak removed lift towers and a home, with the homeowner inside drinking coffee according to a forum posting.

After a brutal finals week spent stuck inside, I was eager to get out skiing. Especially since the forecast for Mt. Baker called for sunny skies, something that I have a feeling I am not going to be seeing often…

Editor’s note: A while back we ran a few guest blog avalanche stories. This one came in recently and we thought it worthy. I’ve skied out Castle Creek many times and the big ones lurking above always catch my attention.…

Want to ramp up your avalanche danger evaluation skills? One thing that helps is keeping avy specific records of your trips so you can step back and review lesson learned. Sure, you can do that with memory (that’s what I do), but memory fails and your brain isn’t like a book you can just page through years after an event.

As I roll up to the park where Jess is waiting to shuttle me home, I simply say to her, “meet me by the river,” and keep pedaling by. I can ride to river access in less time than she’ll…

We’ve had a couple of “sticky” storms this fall, which by all reports resulted in somewhat unusual coverage on the high peaks of the Elk Range here in Colorado. So we checked it out yesterday. Lou DawsonWildSnow.com publisher emeritus and…