Forest Service

Backcountry skiing news including Colorado roadless rules, and Thunderbolt trail in

News items about backcountry skiing, including an avalanche, Colorado items, and skiing the fourteeners, opinions about ski touring issues.

Ski touring news covering avalanche center fund raising and developments at WildSnow dot com including a mobile version of backcountry skiing website.

A fire hose of money sluiced on wildfires has become the economic sugar daddy for everything from whole towns, to small contractors with one pickup truck and water tank.

Backcountry skiing and ski touring news, growing glaciers, fund raising parties and other interesting tidbits from the mountain world.

The WildSnow access watch can’t help but notice controversy up in the PNW about a washed out road that used to provide excellent access to some of Olympic National Park’s backcountry. A section of the Dosewallips River Road was washed…