SlabLab conducts research and creates products for the winter backcountry community

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Find your kind of backcountry partner.

The SlabLab Partner Network helps you connect with like-minded backcountry skiers, splitboarders and snowmobilers.

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The first 100 skiers or riders in each state get the 2024-25 season free.

Our Partner Network helps you find and form better teams, the biggest factor in safety and fun.

Find like-minded partners
Have better first conversations
Grow as a partner
latest research

Our latest report, A Culture of Candor in the Backcountry, explores what our sport can learn from sexual consent.

Being candid can feel overly serious and clunky
We underestimate the skill and practice it takes to be candid
Safety concerns don’t always rise to the level of conscious thought
Read the report

The Teamwork Toolkit is a free library of actionable ideas to develop key skills. Your feedback supports our research.

Visit the Teamwork Toolkit

SlabLab uses Human-Centered Design to help the winter backcountry community innovate.

2022-2023 RESEARCH
Trip Reports
15 min
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We need your voice

Share a little bit about your tours this season and contribute your experiences to this effort.
More on how we work
now available

2021-22 Season Research Report

We spoke with backcountry travelers at every skill level to understand the breadth of their experience of the sport, from risk to partners to why they do it in the first place. Lessons and opportunities emerged for both individuals and the industry.
READ THE REPORT

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Currently we are engaging with people through both 5 minute surveys and  hour-long interviews. We’re able to offer a $25 REI or Amazon gift card for your time for interviews. Please fill out this form to get in touch:

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