For snow sports outside of the resorts. This community includes back country skiing, snowboarding, telemarking and more.

Posting Guidelines

Anyone can comment or post regardless of their experience with snow sports in general. We welcome all those who want to ask questions or share their adventures.

Safety

Always know your limits when going into the back country. If you are just getting started, in-person avalanche training is essential.

Remember that anyone can post to this community regardless of experience so do your own research.

Books

Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper

Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering by Martin Volken, Scott Schell, and Margaret Wheeler

AUTONOMY MASTERY AND PURPOSE in the Avalanche Patch, Bruce Kay

Mountaineering the Freedom Of the Hills

Avalanche Forcasting Centers

Colorado Avalanche Information Center

Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center

Sierra Avalanche Center

Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center

Mount Shasta Avalanche Center

Alaska: Chugach Avalanche Center

Canada

Montana

Sawtooth (Idaho)

General Avalanche Information

US Forest Service Avalanche Center

US Avalanche Center

Canadian Avalanche Center

Trip Planning and Mapping

USDA NRCS - for finding where the snow has accumulated

Hillmap

Cal Topo

GaiaGPS (non-free)

Google Earth Pro (free)

Acknowledgement

A thank you to /u/pragmaticminimalist and the /r/backcountry community on Reddit for supporting a great community for over 12 years. Many of the links in this side bar come from /r/backcountry as they are good resources.

Moderators

If you are interested in helping to moderate this community, please contact @FearTheCron@lemmy.world.

We prefer moderators who have formal avalanche training (E.g. AIARE level 1 or equivalent) and a few years of back country skiing experience, but lets see how this goes.