Five tips for skin track success when ski touring safely in the backcountry. Craft an efficient skin track to avoid avalanche terrain and danger.

Overview of basic avalanche tools including partner, beacon, shovel, probe, communications devices and how to choose.

In-depth tutorial of steep skiing techniques including Doug Coomb’s “Folding Pole”, the Pedal Hop Turn and fundamental body positions.

In this excerpt of The Ski Guide Manual Rob Coppolillo offers insight on the ski day debrief and using near misses as learning opportunities.

Excerpt from Rob Coppilillo’s Ski Guide Manual on how to plan for and develop a terrain use mindset for ski touring, used by IFMGA guides.

Tips on mental and physical fall ski touring preparation and commentary on the “wicked” backcountry, excerpted from The Ski Guide Manual.

The benefits of stretching for ski touring and how to stop making excuses and start your own stretching program.

Lessons learned from a runaway ski that slid into a crevasse on Mount Rainier and what to do if it happens to you.

How to make backcountry skiing less white? Aidan Goldie examines the implicit biases, racism, and barriers that prevent BIPOC from backcountry inclusivity.

Pursuing big ski mountaineering objectives doesn’t need to be a crapshoot. This planning tool uses conditions, terrain and group dynamics to help you step it up in the mountains.