Visit to Bluebird Backcountry in northern Colorado, the only backcountry ski area in the US that offers ski touring, avalanche safety classes and guiding.

Celebrating minimal danger ski touring in low angle powder and tips on how to plan mellow backcountry ski tours.

Trip report from a week in Cooke City, Montana, exploring and touring the backcountry on skis and snowmobile.

Ski traverse of Colorado Elk Mountains, 1980, trip report and narrative by Richard Compton.

Early season trip report from Muir Snowfield on Mt. Rainier with enough snow to ski from the car and pea soup to bright sun.

Report from a low impact, high quality spring ski mountaineering expedition in Wyoming’s Bridger Teton National Forest.