For the third installment of our Snowshoeing course, Tom Janisch presented on avalanche awareness. These notes from the class give avalanche statistics, avalanche mechanics, evaluating hazards, slide warning signs, and field tests for snow stability. Thanks to Subaru, and the City Wenatchee for helping sponsor these classes.

Visiting the Colchuck cirque is a unique experience in the winter. Crowds are gone and with them go the blood-thirsty mosquitoes and the permit-grubbing rangers. John Plotz finds that in winter the cirque’s magnificent scenery can feel like it’s all his own. 

If you feel the Enchantments are played out, vulgarized, and overcrowded, you need only revisit them in the snowy months to find they've recaptured their immortal maidenhood.