The Snow Visa may be low tech when it comes to avalanche awareness and safety, but it might also help someone make the right calls when it matters most.
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The marketplace for avalanche bags expands. A few weeks back, we received some spreadsheets from Ortovox providing a useful overview of comparative weights.
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Eulogy for the late Gary Smith, WildSnow contributor and gear editor, lifetime devotee to the art and technique of ski touring and ski mountaineering.
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Update 2/12/21: The Utah Avalanche Center just released the following full report and video. Both groups of skiers were traveling uphill when the avalanche occurred and the slide turned out to be much larger than originally reported. See the full…
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Tips to practice the five steps of an avalanche rescue: scene size-up, beacon search, probing, shoveling and patient care.
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Totally Deep Podcast Episode 82 featuring Exum mountain guide and star of the Patagonia and TGR film Solving for Z on calculating risk in the mountains.