Snow
Skiing and everything upslope of the treeline: touring, storm days, and the season in between.
Snow · Field Test
Corrie Firn 94 Review: A Featherweight That Doesn't Flinch
Light touring skis are supposed to be a nerve tax. Across five ranges and a season of dawn starts, Corrie's 1,340-gram Firn 94 kept refusing to collect — mostly.
Snow · Profile
The Forecaster's Summer
The last avalanche of the season ran in March. In July, Ruth Sandoval is still working it — with a tape measure, a chainsaw, and a database of close calls that nobody else wants to read.
Snow · Trip Report
The Night It Didn't Freeze
We had a two-week weather watch, a clean forecast, and the fittest May of our lives. What we didn't have, eleven thousand feet up Rainier's Fuhrer Finger, was winter's signature on the snow.