Slope Hound is a US mountain-winter publication for skiers and snowboarders who want practical help with where to go, what to wear, how to stay safe, and what to do when the lifts are not the plan.
It exists because most answers to winter questions online come in two flavors: marketing wearing a fleece, or a forum thread from 2014. This site is the third option. Every spec, price, and safety statistic gets checked against a primary source on the day it is written. When a brand does not publish a number, the article says so instead of guessing. When the conventional wisdom is wrong, the article shows its work.
The beat runs from avalanche safety to what goes under ski pants, with detours into ice fishing at 3am on a Minnesota lake and jackets for the dog who comes along. US mountains, US retailers, US prices, US spellings.
Nobody pays to appear here. No affiliate links, no sponsored posts, no ads, no gift guides sold as editorial. No pick on this site earns a commission, which means no pick is riding on one. If any of that ever changes, a disclosure page goes live the same day.
Slope Hound is small on purpose: a close-knit team of writers based across the Rockies and New England, no content farm behind it, every article written and argued over one at a time. The name is the job description. A slope hound follows its nose around the mountain and does not take anyone's word for where the good snow is.
How the work gets checked is on the standards page. To reach an editor, write to [email protected]. To get something fixed, write to [email protected].