Companion Rescue Skills Save Lives
Companion rescue is a crucial skill that all winter backcountry recreationists need. You never want to use it, but you should have it totally dialled.
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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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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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Burrrlapz | Dont Call it a Comeback
Dylan Siggers and his Fernie tribe made their way to Nelson to play in Whitewater's powder with some impressive local talent.
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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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Mt. Hector Avalanche tragedy
A ski touring party of three remotely triggered the size 2.5 avalanche on Mt. Hector, 20km from Lake Louise.
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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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Powder Storm Advisory
Powder Canada suggests that Powder Chasers mobilize at the outset of the storm and be positioned for what could be the best powder skiing of the season thus far!
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Defiance
The path of progression is paved with acts of defiance. Leanne Pelosi, Jake Blauvelt, and Victor de Le Rue take the stage in British Columbia in a showcase of shred.
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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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Fortress Mountain Asks Albertans to Speak Up
Lusti Bags First Descent of Deltaform Mountain’s North Glacier
Castle Mountain Opens Stagecoach Express, Expands Haig Bowl Access
The Persisting Surface Hoar Layer from January Remains Avalanche Concern
