Alaska Ski Basecamp 2026
The legendary world of ice and snow. The Alaska Range. Ski plane served expedition ski trips in the Alaska Range are the apex of adventure skiing! The snow never stops and storms always finish off cold.
Glacier Travel and Safety
The more time I spend on glaciers the more I look back at my own journey and feel like I was not given a very good framework for understanding the glacier environment. Now, having spend over 600 days on the glacier I’m going to try to articulate some fundamental...
Revelstoke Ski Basecamp
The Monashee mountain range, just out side of Revelstoke boasts some impressive wilderness. Guarded by miles of dense rain forests and huge elevation gain, it is virtually inaccessible without a flight.
We fly in from Revelstoke into a near tree line camp with easy access to high alpine glacier runs and the legendary Canadian pillows.
These provide an excellent opportunity to learn about expedition skills and glaciated environments. It also is world renowned for powder skiing.
This trip we lucked out. Flying in a day after avalanche danger was rated level 4 things quickly settled down and we got some nice refreshes of cold snow down to camp.
What a treat to be powered skiing back to the tents for a warm lunch before heading back out to ski in the evening.
Spring Dry Snow Avalanches
This spring in Colorado there was a pattern with the kinds of avalanches people were getting involved with: dry snow avalanches in a spring context. There are a couple nuances with this specific setup that can help us operate more effectively in the...
Why are there so many avalanche accidents this year?
This year has been fairly unprecedented in the number of avalanche accidents around the world. From the alps, to the Untied States up into Canada. Why is headline after headline another avalanche accident? Colorado Everywhere A Colorado snowpack...
Accident Analysis | January 10th Haiyaha Windslab
This is a great video that illustrates one of the trickiest avalanche problems in Colorado: the super hard slab, windslab. Windslabs are such an interesting problem. They come in a wide variety of forms and can present with very different characteristics....
AIARE 1 Advanced Movement Courses
Prerequisites to Enroll Most AIARE 1 Courses do not have any prerequisite experience to signup. While it is great to make these courses available to everyone, it does create an inherent contradiction when people with vastly different skills are all on the same...
When can you ski avalanche terrain during considerable danger?
The use of the North American Danger Scale has a fair bit of nuance to it. Some people tend to get distracted by the “likelihood” verbiage especially when it comes to understanding the difference between Moderate and Considerable danger. In considerable danger...
FILLING THE GAP IN THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE SKILLSET
I’m really excited about getting this program running this winter. This is a program that I really think will provide the best bang for your buck as far as winter backcountry readiness is concerned. Many students I work with in avalanche safety courses don’t...