Category: Mountain School

As a mountain sledder who loves riding and is also fiercely dedicated to avalanche education, I am absolutely intrigued as to why mountain sledders make the decisions they do, and what we…

Here are a variety of techniques that you can use to get unstuck, from least-to-most physically demanding. Start at the top and work your way down until you're free and clear!

If you ride in the mountains without training and gear, then you are not a mountain sledder. I don't care what kind of hot-rod sled you own. Don't call yourself that. Being…

The bad news is that not only is your sled without any semblance of self-propulsion, it's also got no brakes! That's right. When your chain decided to commit harikari by blasting itself…

  Boulder Mountain, Quartz Creek, Eagle Pass and Clemina are all names of popular riding areas that are likely known throughout the majority of the snowmobile community. We call these “managed” areas,…

Transceiver Interference In the world of avalanches, something good can also potentially be something bad. For example, we talk about trees and rocks acting as anchors stabilizing a snowpack, but in some…

Screenshot from YouTube video “Snowmobile catches fire outside of Island Pond, VT.”   I’m going to be completely honest here. You should insure your sled. But snowmobile insurance is not something that…

Avalanche Canada ambassadors and mountain gurus Nadine Overwater and Brodie Evans made a decision after a tough season of avalanche losses in winter 2015/2016 to put together a video to help promote…

Just about everyone these days is sporting an iPhone or other smartphone in their pocket. The video capability of today’s iPhone technology is incredible. Did you know that you can capture 4K…

Avalanche Canada has produced an eight-part avalanche awareness video aimed at mountain sledders, named Throttle Decisions. The video series comes in response to the realization that there are two types of mountain sledders…