Doug Chabot has been an avalanche forecaster since before the internet existed. The longtime director of Montana’s Gallatin National Avalanche Center, he will retire from...
As Kirkwood Mountain’s ski patrol artillery manager, Amy Armstrong is in charge of the high-powered machinery that’s used to detonate slopes during big storms.
Kakiko Ramos-Leon learned to climb in his native Mexico, but the bigger mountains of Alaska called to him. These days, he’s an Anchorage-based avalanche educator...
Lauren Cantwell, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor from Reno, Nevada—who also doubles as a competitive cyclist and gravel racer and an avid backcountry skier—recently returned...
You’re going for a tour in the backcountry, which means your temperature will be constantly fluctuating. You’ll start cold at the trailhead, then you’ll warm...
Jen Reddy is an artist, avalanche educator, and search and rescue volunteer in Jackson, Wyoming. Which means she helps people on their absolute worst days....
Meet Jamie Yount, a longtime avalanche transportation expert who’s now running a remote avalanche mitigation company. His job: make the roads into the mountains as...
