One of the most common questions we get from our AIARE 1 students is "what's next?" It's easy to feel like you're hitting a plateau after you have taken the course and get a dozen or so tours under your…
Pro Guiding Service Owner and IFMGA certified guide Martin Volken is in the process of co-publishing a new edition of "Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering." The final release date of the book is tentatively slated for…
November 2021 Episode 6.4 features IFMGA guide Martin Volken. Martin shares his story of becoming a guide service and gear shop owner. Martin talks about what goes into co-authoring several books. He explains a matrix to weigh the likelihood versus…
The importance of navigation skills.The recent event with the Boy Scouts on Mount Baker (June of 2018 is the third time in a very short time that I have been very close to a mountain incident that was caused by…
