Anyone using OnX Backcountry for skiing?

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I've had OnX hunt for several years and also use it for backcountry skiing navigation and tour planning. I find it rather annoying that I'd have to download an entirely separate app with a separate subscription to get the winter mode features. I ski in the Silverton, CO and Durango areas. From what I can tell, the only skin track and and line data are from the Silverton area guidebook, which I already have and there's no info for less common routes as well as no line info for LaPlata Canyon which is somewhere I also hang out a good bit. That may very well be a good thing, but, i terms of seeing where I cam on the top map, it soesn't seem that there's much benefit and I already am familiar with the vast majority if not all of the routes in the guidebook in a way that navigation itself is not a selling point for a 2nd subscription.

So, with that in mind, I'm curious if the winter specific features such as winter aerials, sun angles, fatality locations and integrated avalanche forecast data is worth the subscription cost and additional data space on my phone.

Side note, I've seen on some of the Cody Townsend videos that he has access to OnX in a way that allows him to move between the different OnX formats from one account: Hunt, backcountry etc without being logged into separate accounts, so the ability to do this is apparently possible, but not available to the public for some reason.

So, anyone have both OnX Hunt and OnX backcountry for the snow mode access?
 
I've had OnX hunt for several years and also use it for backcountry skiing navigation and tour planning. I find it rather annoying that I'd have to download an entirely separate app with a separate subscription to get the winter mode features. I ski in the Silverton, CO and Durango areas. From what I can tell, the only skin track and and line data are from the Silverton area guidebook, which I already have and there's no info for less common routes as well as no line info for LaPlata Canyon which is somewhere I also hang out a good bit. That may very well be a good thing, but, i terms of seeing where I cam on the top map, it soesn't seem that there's much benefit and I already am familiar with the vast majority if not all of the routes in the guidebook in a way that navigation itself is not a selling point for a 2nd subscription.

So, with that in mind, I'm curious if the winter specific features such as winter aerials, sun angles, fatality locations and integrated avalanche forecast data is worth the subscription cost and additional data space on my phone.

Side note, I've seen on some of the Cody Townsend videos that he has access to OnX in a way that allows him to move between the different OnX formats from one account: Hunt, backcountry etc without being logged into separate accounts, so the ability to do this is apparently possible, but not available to the public for some reason.

So, anyone have both OnX Hunt and OnX backcountry for the snow mode access?
I use Onx Hunt and Offroad. I had Backcountry, but found the Offroad one offered the info I wanted in the snow travel mode.
 
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