Two and a half years ago, Robin Scrimger went down in an avalanche in the Kicking Horse Slackcountry. Many of you will know Robin personally or impersonally as the backbone behind Biglines for many years. It was a shock to many of us to learn that he was in hospital with a ...

Already this season, 26 deaths across North America make it painfully clear that the historical mediums of avalanche awareness are in need of a new approach. The Rocky Mountain Sherpas have teamed up with The Canadian Avalanche Foundation to revolutionize both the medium and the ...

BANFF-AB —The Canadian Avalanche Centre and Sunshine Village Ski and Snowboard Resort invite you to attend Avalanche Awareness Days 2008, presented by Canadian Pacific. This year the national event will be held at Sunshine Village Ski and Snowboard Resort, high in the ...

You may or may not have heard of Billy Poole. I know I had, but I didn't really know what his story was. I bumped into Billy in Las Lenas over the summer and put a red headed face to the name. A rowdy big mountain skier with an insatiable appetite for long boot-packs, he had ...

The shred community has to concede a temporary defeat with the realization that the dangers of backcountry riding are not understood by the youth of today. With the ski/snowboard media placing increasing value on cheating death in dangerous terrain, new methods are required to ...

Golden residents woke to 48 cms of new snow overnight on December 3rd. It was one of the biggest single dumps in recent years. The town and highways were immobilized for the most part and most of the skiing that was done was horizontal. Cross Country skiers shared the roads with ...

The measure of a successful adventure trip is Fun. Fun may be considered to arise chiefly from the execution of adventure-related activities, but personal experience has led the author to speculate that Fun is actually the result of a complex interaction between a large network ...

A Dialogue Regarding The Snowpack Climatology Of Western Canada 1. A CHAIRLIFT ENCOUNTER Another Sunday in March, two thousand and seven, The rain kept on coming, pounding and numbing. Friends flew to the bar like angels to heaven. But the lift was still spinning and I ...

This is the February 11th dispatch from Eric Segalstad in Kashmir discussing the recent avalanche and resulting death in Gulmarg.

Are you ready to call bullshit on a pocket card that can make backcountry travel decisions for you? First impressions may give the sense that the Avaluator is nothing more than a graphic representation of common sense. This however is not true. The beauty of this new ...