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.…
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Booking a backcountry ski hut in Colorado is more like trying to score Taylor Swift or Phish tickets than it is booking a hotel room. If you weren’t smashing a keyboard the second they went on-sale, you probably aren’t getting…
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I should have discarded two outdated rules years ago: never go with strangers or a guide. Here’s to a growth mindset at the Sunrise Hut with eight strangers and guides, Rob Coppolillo and Nino Guagliano.
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Backcountry skiing out of the French Ridge Hut, near Wanaka, New Zealand.
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Snow is starting to fall in the Alpine – Thomas Grandi, a ski guide based at the Talus Lodge in BC, eyes a changing landscape in the East Kootenays.
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A backcountry skiing yurt trip to Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains, a.k.a. Little Switzerland, turns into a search for crust-free snow.
Reviews, opinions and ruminations about backcountry shelter structures and roadside lodges or gasthaus pension devoted to ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing.