Stay Wild Backcountry Skills

A little life update from Stay Wild 🤍🏔️

This season, we’re intentionally scaling back operations so we can spend more time with family — slowing down in the ways that matter most. This past year we embarked on the 2 kids under 2 adventure and can confirm it’s wild 😂.

Because of that, we’ll only be releasing a limited number of avalanche courses in Golden this season. Same passion, same commitment to quality — just fewer dates.

If you’ve been thinking about getting out with us this winter, we recommend checking out our recently posted dates.

Thank you for supporting a small business that values mountains and family. We’re beyond grateful for this community!

— Britt & the Stay Wild team 🖤

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Every season leaves its mark, and this one was no exception. Grateful for the good days, the tough days, and the many lessons we learned along the way 🏔️
A huge thank you to our incredible instructors for sharing their knowledge and passion, and to our amazing students for showing up, learning, and growing with us. Stay safe and we’ll see you when the snow flies again 💙✨

Aaaaand last, but certainly not least, the rest of the Stay Wild crew 🙌 seriously, we’re so lucky to have such wicked group of folks that want to play in the mountains and educate others all in the same 💙

Don’t forget to tell your instructors you love ‘em… or, at the very least, don’t forget to thank them for all that they do! 🥹

PART 2! (There’s a lot of us!)

With the end of our field season on its way (🤧), we’re feeling an enormous amount of gratitude for the folks that make up our team here at StayWild! And with that, we figured it was good as time as any to introduce you all to the team 🥳

We miiiiight be bias, but this crew is seriously top tier and we feel so dang lucky to be able to work alongside each other every year, thank you all for everything you do 💙

PART 1! (There’s a lot of us!)

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We’re deeply saddened to learn of a fatal avalanche that happened yesterday in the Rocky Mountains, just east of our Purcells forecast region. Even a shallow avalanche in consequential terrain can be serious and right now, we’re particularly wary in regions where it is possible for avalanches to step down to a deeper weak layer.

Link to the report: https://bit.ly/KapristoMtn20250217
Image from stock.

Aaaand that’s a wrap on our AST 2 courses for the season! Huge thanks to our incredible instructors for sharing their knowledge and to all the students who put in the work to level up their backcountry skills this season 🙌

Thinkin like next year is your year to finally get your AST 2? Let’s check that you have,
✅ Already completed your AST 1
🏔️ Spent some solid time in the backcountry
🕵️‍♀️ And are ready to learn in depth about decision making, route finding, and trip planning

If you answered yes to all of those, we would be so stoked to see you out with us next season! Plus, it’s never to early to start planning for next year 🫡💙

Stay Wild Backcountry Skills | February Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/a59488ead8e7/stay-wild-november-updates-21550420

Valentine’s Day got you down? Been a while since your last self-sabotage? On the verge of a mid-life crisis?

Have a swipe through Ski-nder where you can find some of our (most problematic) singles 🥵 We can’t promise stability or safety, but if you ignore their red flags you might just end up with a story that’ll last a lifetime

Who you getting into trouble with? ❤️‍🔥👀 swipe to the end to see our pick 🥰

We sure have been having fun chasing that cold smoke lately🌬️💙

how are you feeling about these cold temps?

Goodbye dry January, hello snowy February. Wonder what the new snow could mean for our snowpack? ❄️🤔 read below 👇

In case you haven’t noticed, much of BC has had little to no new snow for weeks….and weeks…While it might be stable now, long dry periods with cold temps and clear nights can create weak layers, such as facets and surface hoar and those suckers like to stick around.

Remeber with every incoming storm we want to think of what surface is getting buried. Surface hoar? Facets? Temperature crust from the recent inversion? These layers could become become reeeeal problematic reeeal quick and powder fever might put our blinders up 🫠 The new snow will add load to our snowpack, and if it doesn’t bond well to the old surface, we could see some spicy conditions 🌶️🥵

This is the time to pay attention to the avalanche forecast, track how the new snow is bonding and ease into terrain cautiously. Yeah, we’re sick of the survival skiing and cement-adjacent turns, too… but don’t let the new snow stoke fool you - keep safe out there, folks🫡 ❤️

This season has sure been busy! From the south to the north, our instructors have been getting after it - and the students learning right along with us ❤️‍🔥🙌

We have a few spots open in our courses coming up ⤵️ take a peek 👀

❄️ Golden | AST 1 | Jan 24th - 25th
❄️ Fernie | AST 1 | Jan 31st - Feb 1st
❄️ Ladies AST 1 | Golden | Feb 6th - 7th

Fingers crossed we see you soon 🤞