Avalanche & Skills
Avalanche education, snowpack observations, rescue, and mountain technique to help you travel safer.
Mastering Splitboard Transitions: Unlock Efficiency and Maximize your time on the mountain
Mastering Splitboard Transitions breaks down how efficient uphill-to-downhill transitions can dramatically increase the amount of vertical—and fun—you squeeze into a day in...
Ski Mountaineering: Prepare the Rope for a Ski Belay
Preparing and managing a rope for a technical skill is foundational to excellent execution. In this case giving a belay or lowering...
Snowpack Observations: Wind Slab Hand Shear
Hand shears to identify weak layering in wind slabs is a valuable but limited observation. Combine this with small test slopes, active...
Ski Mountaineering: Prerig the Rope in a Backpack
The ability to use a rope in steep terrain opens up a world of access. From rappels to belayed riding a rope...
Ski Tech Tip: How to quickly carry your ski or splitboard when bootpacking
Working through complex terrain and varying surface conditions requires adaptive movement strategies. In other words know when to skin and when to...
Weak Layer Snowpack Observations: Compression Test and Extended Column Test Progression
We have seen a weather pattern shift with warm temps, consistent but moderate snow, some moderate wind events with isolated reactivity leading...
Steep Skiing: Terrain Identification and Navigation
Using photos from our phones allow us to be sure we are in the spot we want. By connecting easy to identify...
Snowpack Observations: How to use a probe to assess snowpack layers
Tracking layers with in the snowpack doesn’t require spending time digging a snow pit. Especially for deeper layers the extend beyond a...
Rock Rescue: Firefighters Back Up Rappel
on single pitch rappels that system isn’t always practical. Even so providing an attentive firefighters backup to your rappelling partner could add...