Fiona Russell is now a keen ski tourer but the learning curve was steep when she first gave the snowsport a try ...

There is also the much older three-pin binding system once popular among early backcountry skiers using soft leather boots. Unlike alpine touring bindings, a telemark binding has a spring system that ...

Ski touring has long been a niche community in snow sports, where skiers use special bindings and climbing skins to access backcountry locations for a purer, less-commercial experience in ...

The ski, Colombo explains, provides assistance during the uphill of a touring ascent. In plain English, that means it gives backcountry skiers added juice as they schlep toward their next line—it ...

Backcountry travelers have triggered several ... on the Front Range when a skier, who was skiing with a partner, hit a weak spot in the snowpack below tree line near Jones Pass and triggered ...

The Federal 7mm Backcountry is a new cartridge unlike anything we’ve seen to date. It uses a high-strength steel alloy case that can handle high chamber pressures to deliver magnum-level velocities ...

As an embedded technology that’s designed for integration into skis at the manufacturing level, E-SKIMO is part of a movement to democratize and enhance the backcountry ski experience ...

Elise Beauchmenin, one of Kascenska's students this weekend, said she enjoys backcountry skiing but was unsure how to best use some of the rescue equipment before signing up for the course.

The kick zone, as it’s called, can come in the form of fish scales, which do look a little like fish scales patterned into your ski base, a rough pad called a skin, or by something ... merge into ...

Whistler RCMP said they first received reports of an avalanche at 11:30 a.m. PT in the Ipsoot Mountain area, in a backcountry ski area called "The Meadow." Police say a group in the area from ...

Neuspiel, who guides in the backcountry as director of Island Alpine Guides, said he was skiing a steep slope and did what’s called a “ski cut,” cutting across the top of the slope to try to ...