The Association of Canadian Mountain Guides spends a lot of time exploring the mountains and bringing us high quality information and knowledge. Their work and experiences can help with trip planning and safety before we embark upon our...

Last time on Small Party Avalanche Rescue, right here on Biglines.com, we learned how the way avalanche beacons transmit and receive 457kHz radio pulses dictates the basic methodology one must use to search for buried avalanche victims....

Backcountry Enthusiast's - whether you're a Sledder, Snowboarder, Skier or Snowshoer this fun filled evening is for you. Do not miss these exciting films of avalanche information for the novice to the expert. So grab your friends,...

Back in the backcountry skiing days of yore (when knickers, leather boots, wool socks, K-WaysTM, and genuine little strips of seal’s ass for skins were all the rage), it was hard to find someone buried in an avalanche. If they were hip to...

It has all gone wrong. The rumble dies off. You are standing all alone, straining to see downslope through a sky like a glass of milk, now dissipating into thick fog, then thinning into nothing. You call out to your friends. The answering...

The only thing worse than having no beacon when heading into the backcountry is the false sense of security that having one without knowing how to use in fosters. Too many shredders think that having the backcountry “kit” pretty much means...

I just finished reading Aleta Corbett's, Respecting Everyone's Space In The Busy Rogers Pass. In the first few lines, she refers to a troubling instance of uptrack snobbery as a shock, but then feels that she may have exaggerated and...

After last week’s storm providing a pow frenzy, the rain settled in and left us with a hard glaze of ice across the board. The rain is all over the map these days, and with nothing good left to ski, we’re seemingly walking aimlessly in...

On November 20th, 2004 the <B>Canadian Avalanche Centre </B>(CAC) was officially open for business. The CAC is a national not-for-profit corporation established to serve as Canada’s public avalanche safety organization. For more...

Tracker DTS Becomes Exclusive Beacon of World's Largest Mountaineering School The DAV Summit Club received 411 Trackers this week, supplementing an existing fleet of 189 Trackers, for a total fleet of 600 units. The DAV Summit Club,...