Martini Glasses, Mattresses and the Avalanche Scenario
At the end of the day, safe mountain travel is all about terrain selection.
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The Ten Best Whore Houses in Kazakhstan
Okay, if you are not fortunate enough to live in a ski area, what criteria do you look for when surfing the web, trying to pick a resort to vacation in?
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Mount Baldy re-opens!
Mount Baldy ski area, near Oliver BC, re-opened 500 acres to skiers and riders this season after scrapping operations last season.
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Ptor Spriceniecks Unedited Interview
Ptor Spricenieks is one of the world’s best ski mountaineers–only most skiers know neither man nor myth.
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Understand the Language of Avalanche Bulletins
Several years ago avalanche centers from across Canada, the U.S., and New Zealand began discussing the effectiveness of their public messaging.
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Avalanche Canada Conditions update
Both avalanche danger and riding conditions vary significantly across the province right now
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Teddy-Bear Trees Avalanche
He was too far downslope and was consequently caught in the avalanche for ~100m through the trees.
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Spaghetti On The Wall and Dawn Wall
What is the importance of all this extreme adventure in the modern world? Is it just about a bunch of hedonistic, work-avoiding, risk-taking, adrenaline-junkie nutcases?
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Wayne Flann caught in avalanche
you try hard to negate the risk and you try hard to do what you've been trained to do, (but unfortunately) you can still mess up. Accidents happen
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Top 10 Bad Backcountry Ski Habits
1) Half Lapping It is one thing to break trail up the side of a big beautiful bowl and look back to see multiple groups coming up behind you. It is a totally different story however to see people making it halfway up the climb, ripping their skins and snagging first half-tracks. Totally lame. Remedy: …
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10 Reported Resort Snowpacks
It’s the beginning of a new year and time to compare the snowpacks that lift serviced ski resorts are reporting. It has been an interesting season to say the least with the effects of El Niño very evident–snow packs are below average across Western Canada. And compounding El Niño, the backcountry snowpack is compromised by …
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Heart of the Himalaya
It is a treasure that begs to be picked up again and again, for years or decades, to invigorate us with the wisdoms of a unique culture and the power of the planet we call home.
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Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger Survives K6 Avalanche That Killed Partner Guillaume Pierrel
NOAA Forecasts Very Strong El Niño: Where Will the Powder Fall This Winter?
RCR Announces Four New Lifts for Fernie, Kimberley and Kicking Horse
Canadian Military Avalanche Control in Rogers Pass is Ending
