Soul Rides

We’ll spend thousands upgrading our sleds.

But the most important upgrade might be the one nobody sees.

The more years I spend in the backcountry, the more I realize how much there still is to learn. Experience doesn’t make us bulletproof. If anything, it should make us a little more humble.

Do yourself, your riding partners, and the people waiting for you at home a favour this season:

Invest in being prepared.

Join the Motorized Backcountry Preparedness Program and you’ll also be entered to win:

⚡ Custom KYBER cockpit package
⚡ Custom wrap from Sierra Winter Design + ArcticFX Graphics
⚡ Tempest Optics goggles

Brains. Bars. Bold Graphics.

Custom Cockpit. Custom Wrap. Backcountry Prepared.

Learn more and get entered through Soul Rides.

HUMAN-AFFECTED SNOWPACK
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Jeremy Hanke
Shena Thomas

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Modified Extended Column Tests (MECT) are something we’ve been working on for some time with our longtime collaborator, Iain Stewart-Patterson , to better understand the potential for snowmobile triggering when persistent and deep persistent slab problems exist within the snowpack.

We’re taking that work a step further and writing a paper on MECT for ISSW 2026.

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What is it? And who cares?

ISSW is where avalanche research gets challenged, discussed, and shared by people working across the snow and avalanche world.

For us, it’s also a chance to put our ideas through the peer-review process and contribute to where avalanche practice goes next.

Here’s a little look at what ISSW is — and why getting our work there matters.

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BRAINS. BARS. BOLD GRAPHICS.

The original 1st 100 are already in.

Now we’re opening just 100 more spots.

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