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Spring means more opportunities to bike-to-ski/ride. Here’s a primer from @cascadeconnections on securing your skis/splitboard to a bike frame.

Photo trip report of bike to ski mission on Mt. Sopris outside of Carbondale, CO, riding, climbing and skiing a total of 7600 feet over 36 miles.

Trip report of biking to ski 13,899 Grizzly Peak in Colorado with a light gravel bike, skinny skis and sub 1000 gram boots.

For years, Mount Sopris beckoned. What better way to heed the call than a bike to ski to summit?

Ski/bike combo: backcountry skiing on Mt. Hood, a volcano with the easiest accessible summer snow in the PNW, finishing with a downhill mountain bike ride on 4,000 feet of flowy singletrack descent.

Week in review for ski touring articles 11/14-11/18/2016 and mountain biking in Moab while we wait for the snow to fall.

Lincoln Creek and Grizzly Creek ski touring approach using ebikes for Lincoln Road, Colorado backcountry recreation.

Electric bicycles (e-bike) could be the key to access of ski touring terrain in the backcountry that’s blocked by gated and otherwise ok roads.

Ski touring related equipment at Outdoor Retailer trade show summer 2015, including Arcteryx and Aspect Solar for backcountry adventure.

Backcountry fat tire bike. Alubooyah, with clever ski carry system using tech binding toe piece.

I’ll never forget staring down the barrel of Colorado’s Cross Couloir with skis on my back. The wind was hammering on a frigid April dawn as I slowly lost feeling in my fingers. A deep shiver set in. I stood…

The weight of these 103mm waisted freeride powder blasters will surprise you I wasn’t wearing a skimo speed suit the first time I clicked into a pair of La Sportiva’s skis. It was a media trip in Marble two years…

You already have the essentials covered. Beacon, shovel, probe, first aid kit, and so on. Maybe you’ve been on multi-day hut trips, or perhaps this is your first time packing for one. This article isn’t intended to explain the basics…

I truly needed goggles in the backcountry once last season. The wind was absolutely whipping, the light was perfectly flat, and I was downright nervous about the Gore Range couloir we were trying to find along a ridge of indistinguishable…

The differing styles of all the different ski tourers (tourists? Tourons?) is always interesting to me, running the gamut of the kitchen sink crew who, if needed, could live out of their touring pack in decadent luxury if the need…

Big and floaty and so so … so fine in ideal powder. This can be said about many skis, but, in particular, it is true of the DPS Pagoda Tour RP 112. And it turns out, this ski just flat out makes less-than-ideal powder more fun too.