"ski traverse"

During the summer months we travel safely through what can dicey avalanche terrain in winter: a mountain bike mail pickup.

Nicolette Jones reflects on the friends that helped make her ski traverse of The Colorado Trail (nearly 485 miles of it) happen.

Three different backcountry skiers and three different sleep systems. A breakdown of the sleep systems used on a recent traverse.

Human powdered (and powered) ski touring expedition on Monarch Icefields, final report about this amazing backcountry mountaineering.

Ski touring across the spectacular Chiwaukum Range, Washington Central Cascades backcountry trip report.

Gear Checklist — High Altitude Spring Ski Traverse, Colorado Rocky Mountains, Multi-Day, mix of huts and tent nights

Louie is down to around 15 pounds without food or water (fasting works wonders). His list for ski touring traverse kit.

Alex Lee and Manasseh Franklin recap their 2021 Elk Grand Traverse ski race endeavor and sub 10 hour finish.

Re-creation and history of Trooper Traverse, 10th Mountain Division soldier’s ski route from Leadville to Aspen, Colorado in 1944 just before they shipped out to WWII.

Red Line Traverse, backcountry skiing along the crest of the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada range in California.

Ski touring through the Enchantments, Washington, a beautiful, long, one day traverse in the Cascades backcountry.

Grand Traverse 2015, ski mountaineering race from Crested Butte to Aspen. Registration opens Dec. 1.

Backcountry ski mountaineering along the magnificent Forbidden Traverse, touring in the heart of North Cascades National Park.

Gear for Spring Backcountry Skiing Traverse and tour, it’s worth working on your exact choices in mountaineering kit.

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…

Four of my hut companions and I leaned into plastic deck chairs facing the wind-scoured peaks looming over Silverton, passing around a flask of cheap mezcal, recounting the day’s ski runs. Calling the conditions harsh would have been an understatement.…

The glossy carbon weave is attractive. When carbon is employed, we pay a premium for lightness and stiffness: Dynafit’s Blacklight ski boot doubles up with real-world stiffness and is a high-functioning boot for any mountain mission.

Proof of concept is laid bare in the mountains. Slovakia’s Grizzly ski bindings has made inroads with the skimo set and have their eyes set on bringing a rethink to how a tech binding should look and operate. We’re checking…

In a somewhat crowded marketplace for lighter and skinnier skis, the Fischer Transalp 86 Carbon stands out, not in a flashy way, as a can-do stable ski. Spring corn and firm steeps anybody?

We get it all in this trip report: youthful spirit, great images, and some vision. Two skiers enter Washington’s remote Picket Range to ski Thread of Ice.