The North Cascades were a great half-way point to stop for an afternoon ski tour last week while heading back into the states from Penticton, BC. I phoned ahead the night before to see if I could rally two old friends, Jon Olivera and Rusty Hibbert, who would likely jump at the rumors of new [...]

The following is a guest blog from BCA athlete Max Mancini. Mancini has been revolutionizing the sport of free heel skiing for the greater part of the last decade. Below he shares some of the inspiration behind helping others and the design of this most recent pro model ski. In 2009 Max founded Life Turns, [...]

Several years ago a friend of mine came up with a brilliant idea: he decided that the extra day in a leap year should never be wasted. To that end, he has planned ski trips to cool places for a group of friends so that we are always skiing on February 29th. At first we [...]

This past Sunday the BCA crew made their way south for the annual Monarch Snowcat Tour- and it was deep! Many thanks to our guides Chad and Gail for showing us around to all the best stashes, I think we all got our powder fill for the week of work ahead. I do believe that [...]

As Dave mentioned, winter is still slowly arriving in CO. This is a 5 minute video highlighting last weekend’s adventure. In typical Colorado fashion the weak snowpack has been limiting the type of terrain we can safely ski. For now it’s best to play it conservative out there. I still have hope for a big [...]