Athletic foods and weekend fun at WildSnow dot com, always fun to experiment with fuel for ski touring.

Fitness and strength for backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering.

Bryan Wickenhauser discusses how to gain fitness for backcountry skiing. He uses his experience in ski mountaineering racing to develop a workout for skiing uphill faster.

Joe Risi reports from Crested Butte on the 17th annual Grand Traverse backcountry skiing race. A 40 mile ski race that takes backcountry skiiers from Crested Butte Mountain Resort to Aspen in the Elk Mountains.

Backcountry skiing rescue at the Asulkan Hut, BC, Canada.

The best fitness workout ever invented for backcountry skiing, carry backpacks for everyone in your group — and break trail.