Utah Avalanche Center Podcast

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Bill Glude Wants You to Ride Hard and Die Old

Bill Glude Wants You to Ride Hard and Die Old23 dec 20251 u 01 min

Bill Glude is something of a trans-Pacific snow monk, with a deep knowledge of the winter mountains in both Alaska and Japan. He's spent more than 40 years skiing some of the most scenic terrain in the world. In that time, he's helped compose a sermon on the virtues and sins of various snow crystals, conversed with ravens, and even invented a snow block test. He joins us to discuss what's he's learned in a lifetime on the snow and why experience is an incomparable teacher.