Marker makes Goggles?
Seeing is important. Keeping an eye on your riding friends, staying out of tree wells, seeing compressions or cat roads are mandatory.
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Category: News
Rethinking “No Friends on a Powder Day”
This level of stoke and selfishness gets people killed as we’ve seen this past weekend in two tree well fatalities that occurred in the Kootenays.
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Tree Well fatalities and how to avoid
It's snow immersion season — fatalities are happening from people falling into tree wells and sufficiating while skiing and boarding deep powder in our mountains.
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Freeride World Tour applies Gender Equality
Today the FWT announces that men and women athletes will be awarded equal prize money across all categories beginning with the first event of FWT20.
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BC is Going Off!
Several BC resorts received over 150cms of light dry powder this past week, BC is going off—what a start to the new year!
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What to do with a Smartphone in the Backcountry
Smartphones: we all use them, all the time. And yes, even in the backcountry (Instagram!). It’d be too simplistic and even unsafe to just tell people not to bring their phones at all when they head out of bounds, because while their signal does interfere with that of an avalanche beacon within a certain range, …
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Christmas Top 10 Powder Resorts
It's Christmas and we're studying snow reports to determine where the best powder turns lie.
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Avalanche Canada — Is the snowpack improving?
The question we've been asking is being addressed by Avalanche Canada forecaster Ilya Storm's post; Yes, No, Maybe So.
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Dream Job – How hard can it be
Katie is tired of working behind a desk. She ventures out for a day in the life, with mountain professionals to find her calling in the ski industry.
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La Liste 2 – Everything or Nothing
La Liste 2 - Everything or Nothing, is a new film that follows freeskiers Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten as they travel to the world’s high-altitude mountain ranges and attempt to make their distinct mark on peaks over 6000m.
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Powder 8’s returning to Wiegele’s
To celebrate Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing's 50th anniversary the legendary Powder 8's will be returning to Wiegele World in Blue River, BC.
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Kickstart a new Rogers Pass map
Douglas Sproul has been busy again, this time he's publishing a new Rogers Pass Map.
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RED Mountain Names New President, Reaffirms Commitment to Independent Spirit
Wildfire Fallout Felt as Marmot Basin Sees Drop in Visits
The Starting Zone: A New Digital Resource for Avalanche Professionals and Advanced Recreationists
Marko Shapiro: Capturing the Soul of Verbier Since 1970
