Climbing skins: underrated and totally essential to your ski touring kit. Here, we bust 5 climbing skin myths and offer tips for buying your next pair.

Backcountry skiing in Bariloche: tough to figure out; easy to fall in love with. Andy Sovick offers sage wisdom and recounts incredible skiing.

Desert season is the dessert of summer: the treat of crisp cool days and campfires among the falling leaves. A time to squeeze the last few sweet drops of warmth out of the year. A fragile fort to hide out from old man winter for a few more weeks.

Discovery of Japan Niseko, Hokkaido for powder skiing, early publication by Paul Parker and Yvon Chouinard no doubt started the current frenzy.

The antidote for a thwarted Alaska Range expedition? Volcano corn skiing, of course.

It’s never too early to build your fitness base for ski touring. US Ski Mountaineering Team Head Coach Joe Hardyshell gives his top tips to get in ski touring shape before the snow falls.