by Jacob Urban | Feb 20, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” -Potter Stewart- The fact of the reality is that our backcountry trailheads are getting busier…and no amount of complaining is going to change it....
by Jacob Urban | Feb 11, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
-Several winters ago @tetoncountysar was called out to respond to a party of overdue skiers in Teton Pass. Conditions weren’t favorable. It was nighttime, the height of a severe winter storm, deep snow and elevated avalanche conditions. We did have enough information...
by Jacob Urban | Feb 11, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
-What in my pack? —Specifically this is what is always in the bottom of my pack. I train incessantly on how to implement these items and hope to never use them. – –Here’s the gear list and their uses. –1. First Aid Kit ⛑ To see a complete list...
by Jacob Urban | Feb 11, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
Do you have the right type of communications? -The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. —Sydney...