Discover What You’ve Been Missing in the Backcountry

Free 110-Page eBook to Reflect, Reset, and Raise Your Game

You’ve got the gear. You’ve taken the courses.
But how do your partners experience you on a tour?
Where are your blind spots? And how do you even begin to see them?

This free guide is built to help you answer those questions—not with checklists, but with honest reflection.

100+ pages

What’s Inside the eBook

Thousands of self-reflective questions across a full spectrum of backcountry skills

It’s not about right answers.
It’s about honest ones.

Too many people head into the backcountry without ever stopping to examine how they actually show up—in moments of tension, on technical terrain, or in group decision-making.

  • Efficiency
  • Route-Finding
  • Terrain Reading
  • Experience & Progression
  • Avalanche Risk
  • Decision-Making
  • Communication
  • Group Dynamics
  • Downhill Ability
  • Line Choice
  • Gear Awareness
  • Emergency Preparedness

Why This Guide Exists

This guide helps you connect the dots between what you’ve learned and how you actually behave.
It’s the missing layer between knowledge and action.

Built for Real Growth

  • Reflect deeply on your habits, reactions, and assumptions

  • Debrief solo or with your touring group

  • Identify strengths and surface unseen risks

  • Build the foundation for lasting improvement—not just survival

Self-Evaluate

Get the Full eBook – Free

Drop your email to get access to the full 110-page guide—designed to help you reflect more clearly and lead more confidently in the backcountry.

Thoughtful, practical, and field-tested.
Just what you need to take the next step.

Expect Your Best

Want to Go Further?

This guide opens the door.
The Skill Builder app takes you through it—with personalized tracks, skill diagnostics, and a system to measure real backcountry growth.

When you’re ready to act on what you’ve reflected on, the app is here.

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