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Meet like-minded backcountry partners

A community for connecting with quality teammates and having more fun and safe days on the snow.

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Find partners that match your style
Search based on the qualities you care about and read real backcountry profiles. No more hoping someone sees your post.
Trip reports and local discussion
Get a real sense of someone’s experience and recent trips. No need to put up with people inflating their abilities.
Supportive content and community
Led by resident expert Richard Bothwell. Content, tools, and a supportive space to ask and learn.
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What people are saying

“SlabLab is more tailored to backcountry. Facebook groups have tons of non-engaged users and trolls.”
“I find it easier to build trust with folks on SlabLab than Facebook.”

Designed to get you to the snow

Find partners based on the qualities you care about

Backcountry-specific profiles and filters let you get an early sense of potential partners.
  • Experience level and interests - From pros to beginners, technical ascents to low-angle powder.
  • Compatibility - Our top goal is to help you find people who share your style of planning, risk, pace, communication.
  • Availability - Tuesday laps before work or weekend warrior? The calendars have to align.
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Experience
Avy Courses
First Aid Ed.
Downhill ability
Gender
Age
Risk Tolerance
Communication Style
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Connect across California, Colorado, Utah and Washington

State and local spaces for trip reports, conditions and news in a clean, moderated space. More states coming soon!
  • Stay on top of updates for your area or easily look around if you’re traveling.
  • Click to see anyone’s backcountry details, not a generic social media profile.
  • As a member you can have input into the community expectations we use to moderate.
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Don’t just meet partners, become a great one yourself

Interpersonal skills have an outsize impact on your fun and safety in the mountains.
  • The Better Team Workbook is a set of proven and practical advice and resources that act as a companion over the course of the season to help you refine the human skills that make the difference.
  • Our Ask the Community space lets you get feedback from peers and pros.
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At Slablab we start with research.

That’s how this partner network came to be. SlabLab's primary work is conducting qualitative research for the winter backcountry community.
Over three years and more than 50 interviews we found that finding partners was the single biggest pain point in the sport. Especially for experienced tourers! Now we’re using our insights to inform this partner network and help people form better teams.
2021-22
A broad look
across the sport
2022-23
Finding partners and
building teams
2023-24
A Culture of Candor
on Backcountry Teams