I want to take a brief moment to explain how my wife and I do our best to minimize risk when our kids go backcountry skiing. Obviously, avalanches are the biggest concern, though tree wells, hypothermia, frostbite, or skiing injuries are also possible. For the sake of this post, I’ll just focus on avalanches.  Here’s…

Parents,  I won’t pretend to be an expert at parenting. (My own kids can certainly confirm that fact!) But I think one of the best things my wife and I have done as parents is to keep video games out of our house and to grant our kids a lot of freedom to explore the…