News items about backcountry skiing, including an avalanche, Colorado items, and skiing the fourteeners, opinions about ski touring issues.

or years, this mountain melee Elk Mountains Traverse race was treated more as a nordic skate race than a ski mountaineering comp. But recent developments in lightweight backcountry skiing gear have converted the race into something more along the lines of a true radonnee skimo comp.

The 2009 US Ski Mountaineering National Championships is the culmination of randonee races taking place all across the US, including both coasts but with a concentration of racing in Colorado and Rocky Mountains.

This just in. Michael Kennedy is the guy who published Climbing Magazine for years, and shepherded that publication from a small somewhat regional rag to a publication that reached the top of the heap. I thought he was retired, but…