Risking It All: Are the Mountains Worth Dying For?
Will Gadd, one of the Rockies' best-known adventurers, riffs on life and death in the mountains.
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What Can We Learn From The Inbounds Avalanche At Taos?
A few days ago in Taos, New Mexico, an inbounds slide took the life of two skiers who were buried and subsequently dug out when a large avalanche occurred on…
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He Set Off The Biggest Slide Of His Life…Then Went Back To Ski The Same Line.
words:: Tobin Seagel Two years ago I set off the biggest avalanche I’ve ever seen. The crown was over six meters deep, and the slide ran almost a thousand meters…
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Backcountry Safety Tips From the Pros
We’ve rolled the clocks forward, the weather is warming, the snow pack is thick (and changing) and mountain lovers are starting to eye up bigger, more complex terrain. Spring skiing…
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The World’s First Crowd-Sourced, Real-Time Platform for Avalanche Safety
Avatech, an outdoor technology company focused on developing breakthrough, mountain safety technologies, has announced the launch of Avanet, the world’s first crowd-sourced, real-time platform of mountain safety information. Avanet is…
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ML Poll: Are We Doing Enough to Promote Avalanche Safety?
[poll id=”5″] It’s that time of year again. The snowmakers are firing, the chairlifts are staring to churn and our feeds are overflowing with the newest, slickest videos of skiers…
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When the Going Gets Weird…
by Leslie Anthony In what was likely one of his more lucid moments, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson famously stated that “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”…
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