About this episode

The hosts discuss spring adventures, summer skiing, and challenges with food caches while reviewing recent episodes and featuring guests from the ISSW 2026 technical committee.

Join us for our seventh installment of Slabs ‘n Sluff with your hosts Sara Boilen and Dom Baker, joined by Caleb Merrill! The crew discuss spring adventures, summer skiing, and cows raiding Caleb’s food cache at an Andes basecamp! They also review recent episodes from April and May and preview a few exciting things coming up on the Avalanche Hour Podcast. Tune in to hear from Scott Thumlert and Simon Horton of the ISSW 2026 technical committee to learn more about the process of getting 100s of abstracts ready presenting next fall in Whistler. Avalanche Hour Podcast hosts Brooke Shiny Edwards, Sean Zimmerman-Wall and Joe Stock leave messages for the crew to shout out learning moments and moments of gratitude from their seasons. Episode Summary: Sara, Caleb and Dom discuss spring adventures, summer skiing and the challenges of keeping a food cache away from a herd of hungry cows. Review of the last month of programming, highlighting interviews that captured the hosts imagination or got us thinking The joys of gravel riding, paddling and hiking for hours in the dirt to find summer snow. The ISSW 2026 technical committee members Scott Thumlert and Simon Horton drop by for a chat…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sara Boilen, Dom Baker

Guest: Caleb Merrill

Topics covered

• spring adventures
• summer skiing
• food cache challenges
• ISSW 2026
• voicemails
• gravel riding
• paddling

Keywords

• Avalanche Hour
• spring skiing
• food cache
• ISSW 2026
• voicemails
• summer snow
• gravel riding

Sponsors

Darren Johnson Avalanche Education Memorial Fund, AVSS, Drone Amplified, Austin Powder, Safeback, onX, Backcountry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ISSW 2026, Avalanche Hour Podcast

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