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A Night with the Snow Removal Crew of Stelvio Pass
Each May, a small team of road workers cuts the Stelvio Pass open from both sides, a kilometre at a time, through walls of snow that can stand five metres high.
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Avalanche forecasting for backcountry skiers, spring corn snow, one season at a remote weather station, the SWAG observer's notebook.
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The Glaciologists of the Saint Elias
On an upper basin of the Kaskawulsh Glacier in Kluane National Park, a four-person research team spent twelve days in May measuring how fast a great mass of ice is changing.
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The Dawn Patrol of Rogers Pass
Inside the Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks operations centre, the avalanche control team begins each winter morning before the highway opens.
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The Snow Ranger of Tuckerman Ravine
For thirty-one springs, a US Forest Service snow ranger named Doreen Aikins has stood at the lip of the Headwall and decided who should ski and who should turn back.
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A Sierra Observer's Snowpit Notebook
Across fourteen winters of fieldwork above Mammoth Lakes, an independent observer named Caleb Yost has filled forty-two notebooks with snow profiles, instability tests, and what they meant.
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One Season at the Wendelstein Weather Station
At 1,838 metres above the Bavarian foothills, a two-person crew kept the longest continuously operated alpine weather station in Germany running through a difficult winter.
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Spring Corn Snow as a Touring Objective
In the Bridger Range above Bozeman, a small group of skiers waits each April for the brief window when the snow becomes something you can carve.
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A Winter of Avalanche Forecasting for the Wasatch
From the Utah Avalanche Center's Salt Lake office, four forecasters spent the 2025-26 season explaining a snowpack that refused to settle.