The built in RECCO reflector makes you searchable to the rescuers. RECCO reflectors are lightweight passive transponders which require no power or activation to function.
Read more The RECCO Reflector saves lives
Craig McMorris and Logan Pehota have received wildcard entries for the Freeride World Tour at Kicking Horse Resort in Golden BC.
Read more Craig McMorris & Logan Pehota Receive Golden FWT Wildcards
Got to spend a heli-week with the steep shots and pillow drops crew at CMH Kootenay this January
Read more Dylan Siggers skis CMH Freeride and Steep Shots
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.
Read more Companion Rescue Skills Save Lives
Seeing is important. Keeping an eye on your riding friends, staying out of tree wells, seeing compressions or cat roads are mandatory.
Read more Marker makes Goggles?
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.
Read more Rethinking “No Friends on a Powder Day”
Dylan Siggers and his Fernie tribe made their way to Nelson to play in Whitewater's powder with some impressive local talent.
Read more Burrrlapz | Dont Call it a Comeback
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.
Read more Tree Well fatalities and how to avoid
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.
Read more Freeride World Tour applies Gender Equality
Several BC resorts received over 150cms of light dry powder this past week, BC is going off—what a start to the new year!
Read more BC is Going Off!
A ski touring party of three remotely triggered the size 2.5 avalanche on Mt. Hector, 20km from Lake Louise.
Read more Mt. Hector Avalanche tragedy
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, …
Read more What to do with a Smartphone in the Backcountry
