It's cold, and your skins aren't sticking to the base any more. Maybe you stored them in your jacket. Maybe your walked on sunny, but then shaded aspects. Maybe your skins partly loosened, for whatever reason, then accumulated snow, which transformed to ice.
Many backcountry areas are very remote, and more so during Winter. We need to be able to take care of one another. That means having the WFR-certification. Swiss tour guides only need a first aid course, oddly, but that is likely because …
Let me establish two approaches to a ski traverses longer than a week, as I understand them. The classical approach is similar to a polar expedition. This expedition style entails harnessing a heavy (>1kg) sled that cannot be practically carried, taking a lot of liquid fuel, a …