Tag: Survival

The winter backcountry is unforgiving of poor planning and accepts no excuses. When you enter this arena, you must be prepared for unplanned contingencies.

Here’s our list of key essential safety gear that every sledder should consider packing along for a ride in the mountains. We’ve broken the list down into three levels of priority, from…

The sledder, who was reportedly travelling alone with his transceiver off, was buried 2m beneath the avalanche debris. Two nearby snowmobilers had heard the engine sound of a distant snowmobile stop and happened…