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Who's ready for winter? Fancy honing your off-piste technique this season? Do you want to expand your mountain knowledge or are you simply a mountain freak and are looking for others who will shred with you and show you the best descents? Then this is your chance to take part in the pre-season camps in Engelberg.

Mammut has stood for quality, safety and innovation since 1862. The safety and protection of their team of athletes and their customers are at the heart of everything they do. Therefore, they continuously test and improve their materials and products to uphold these high standards. During this process, Mammut identified a potential issue with the power switch of the new avalanche beacons Mammut Barryvox 2 and Mammut Barryvox S2 in some cases, and therefore decided to recall all potentially affected products for inspection, and where applicable, repair or exchange.

Just in time for the start of the season, the European Outdoor Film Tour is once again travelling through Europe, bringing with it athletic solo runs and exciting adventures. Since the German premiere on 16th of October 2024 in the Alte Kongresshalle in Munich, the program has been shown at more than 350 events in nine countries. The total play time is around 120 minutes.

Anton shares insights about his latest ski movie "SNOW" and the impact of technological advancements like FPV drones and AI on his filmmaking. The film draws a connection between the world of freeriding and the deep relationship indigenous cultures have with snow.

It feels like we've only blinked once and the season is already over. But so much has happened and it's been great. The start in December was brilliant, hopes were high for an exceptional season - but the weather and winter had its own plans. From Christmas onwards, the Alps were hit by unusually mild temperatures, which continued throughout the winter. It was a season full of highs and lows - literally. Because while we were looking forward to the powder days, the snow cover retreated regrettably early to well over 1500 m altitude, and the touring options were massively restricted, especially at lower altitudes. But spring was kind to us, bringing back the winter for a good ten days in April and providing good conditions for the alpine touring season.

Only a financial rescue package totalling 95 million euros can create the conditions for Austria's Alpine Associations to continue to preserve mountain huts and and hiking trails for all mountain recreationists.

Attention to all mountaineering enthusiasts among you: The screws on the Neve Strap crampon (green version 2024) can loosen, causing the heel cup to come off the crampon. Those affected can return the crampons.

Dear readers, another season is drawing to a close, editorial content has already become scarcer in the last two weeks and the PowderGuide editorial team is slowly going into summer hibernation. And yet this year is different than usual! For the first time, our weather service is NOT taking a summer break! And of course neither is the development team...

Winter is slowly coming to an end, even if the fresh snow maps on the PG-ICON weather forecast are once again turning colourful this week. In the meantime, we are continuing to work on the weather maps on Powderguide.com. We have refreshed the portfolio once again to provide the travellers among you with reliable snow and weather data. Our forecast maps are now also available for Norway and Scandinavia, the Caucasus and the Pyrenees! A search function has also been integrated into the map, allowing you to quickly search for locations, valleys or mountains.

The ski touring season has long since begun and you can see ski tourers scaling the mountains everywhere. But what should you look out for while ski touring when it gets warmer? What is the right skin for me? What can I do about stubborn skins? We spoke to Sebastian Dorn from Sport Conrad and put together a brief overview of everything you need to know.

namuk's vision is to inspire a love of nature in children. In their study from 2023, they found that children in Switzerland and Germany only spend an average of 1.5 hours a day outdoors. Definitely not enough! Now namuk is committed to giving children their time outside back and with their outdoor clothing they want to give children carefree outdoor adventures - without cold hands or wet feet, without the fear of coming home with clothes full of holes.

This season is full of new features. At the beginning of the season, we went online with the new website; now, as already announced, we are also going online in two languages. From March 2024, PowderGuide.com will be available in English as well as German. This will enable us to expand our readership and accessibility and create inclusion of the non-German-speaking Alpine region.