Avalanche Canada – Communicating spring conditions
Around this time of year avalanche forecasts switch from rating danger by elevation band to rating danger by time of day.
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Sam Kuch – Third Person
Sam Kuch visualizes every line and every air before he drops in.
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Backcountry Skier dies in Avalanche near Lake Louise
The deceased young man from Canmore has been identified as Spencer Postman, 26
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Freeride World Tour Champions Crowned
Fernie BC's Katie Anderson was second in Women's snowboard in Verbier and that earned her #2 overall on her rookie year in the FWT!
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Learn the Skills Needed to Unlock Glaciated, Steep or Technical Terrain
Based out of the Banff/Canmore/Lake Louise area, this camp puts you on the doorstep of some of the best ski mountaineering terrain in North America at a time of the year when the snowpack is typically more stable, crevasses have good coverage and the ski quality is at its best.
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Morrison’s Hotel Wall
With a line like that it is hard to say which is the best part. Is it the anticipation of standing at the top? Being smack dab in the belly of the beast? Or is it the last turns out of the bottom?
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David Harley talks about Zincton
An Interview with David Harley, the proponent of the new Zincton lift-assisted, slack country ski area in the Selkirk Range between New Denver and Kaslo in BC. Before we talked, David Harley sent me the basic facts about Zincton. The idea of a Tenure essentially set aside for backcountry skiing is intriguing. 80% of the …
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Black Diamond Finally Recalls Faulty Avalanche Beacon
We users have lost faith in Black Diamond and Pieps, and moving forward will have reservations concerning the safety of their equipment.
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Mount Nelson First Descent
It’s been a childhood dream to ski Mount Nelson. Yesterday with local boy and teammate Ian McIntosh we got to live that dream.
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Avalanche Canada: Time to consider warming
Sudden changes to the weather are forecast in the coming week. Expect this to complicate the avalanche conditions.
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Meet the Tracker4, BCA’s workhorse beacon
In a season when we have increased awareness and potential fatalities from beacon failures, the Tracker is a beacon you can trust.
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Risky positioning – social aspirations and risk-taking behaviour in avalanche terrain
Risky behaviour among backcountry riders is, in part, a function of their self-conception as consumers of risk and the degree of social acceptance it confers on them in their social group.
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