Every day is a good day to highlight a solid word. Today’s word is albedo. Along with that, we’ll get some context from the dust-on-snow events in Colorado.

Last month, WildSnow featured an accident in the Teton’s Sliver couloir. That story elicited some excellent discussion on communication norms in the backcountry, specifically when it comes to tighter, more high consequence lines when parties have to potential to drop…

The backcountry couloir theater has a limited carrying capacity. And the safety margins, once that capacity is met, are razor-thin: An Incident in the Teton’s Sliver Couloir.

It’s not exactly a slow news week for the NYT. Human-powered skiing stories make a three-peat in short order at the venerable paper is news.

With snow currently falling in Colorado, WildSnow reaches out to some avalanche forecasters to assess the snowpack as we move towards the winter solstice.

In this news roundup, there’s skimo, business cycles, profits and expenditures, a lost box of slides and thoughts of magical mountains.

With global supply chain issues and shipping delays, retailers and manufacturers problem solve as they gear up for winter.

The backcountry skiing news involves items outside the realm of remote powder and corn. Salt Lake City is grappling with solutions to ease traffic congestion in Little Cottonwood Canyon, while Tupper Lake, way up in the Adirondacks, envisions a human-powered playground for a defunct ski area. We also take a shallow dive into the Colorado Ski Act and its relationship to inbound avalanches.

Black Diamond announces replacement program for Ascension Nylon skins produced between January and March 2021.

Ski touring and backcountry news roundup for summer 2021 covering land use at ski resorts, Olympic skimo, resort uphill pricetags and more.