Recap of Mountain Rescue Aspen talk on planning for backcountry tour. Navigation, emergency preparedness, snowpack, sidecountry is backcountry, human factors and heuristics.

Reviving climbing skins in the field. Basic prevention to dealing with a full climbing skin failure. Tips to keep your backcountry ski tour going.

In crucial moments, ski crampons can be your most valuable piece of ski touring or mountaineering gear. Here, the 411 on when, when not and how to use them.

CalTopo offers a variety of tools for navigating avalance terrain. Here, a breakdown of the most essential features for the backcountry ski tourer.

Training in ski touring often focuses on uphill fitness, but the ultimate goal is to ski down. Here, some fitness tips for the coveted descent.

For ski touring safely in avalanche terrain, skiing one at a time, or OAT, is key. But what does skiing OAT actually mean? Lou examines.

Climbing skins: underrated and totally essential to your ski touring kit. Here, we bust 5 climbing skin myths and offer tips for buying your next pair.

New guidebook covers ski jumping off cliffs, hucking North America, includes first aid and physics, this is a review.

A story of decision making in avalanche terrain, British Columbia backcountry ski touring, Million Dollar Couloir.

The basic terms used in avalanche safety can be confusing to the newcomer, this should help.