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After a full season of skimo race training, the Women’s La Sportiva Sytron proves itself as a versatile, mobile uphill machine that skis well. Full review.

An exploratory ski tour in the Never Summer mountains leads to unexpected findings, including a dead mountain lion.

The Power of Four and Power of Two ski mountaineering races are the real deal. M gives the play by play, right from the skin track.

After a year of use, the La Sportiva Solar proved its worth as a workhorse touring boot, but not without a few mods on rivets, guide wires and more.

On a long-haul flight to the Italian Alps, M contemplates her carbon footprint, and decides to purchase carbon offsets in recompense.

Recap of highlights from Outdoor Retailer Day 2: glow in the dark Kastles, an auto heel rising binding, hardboot splitboard plates, touring ski poles with detachable straps.

Ski mountaineering racing is painful, gear intensive and dominated by men in spandex. But here’s why you should try it.

Resort uphill skiing, skier’s rights and resort’s regulations. A breakdown of public land use, monetary gain and why resorts can restrict access.

Q&A with Andy Sovick, accidental publisher of Beacon Guidebooks. We talk maps, decision making, etiquette, how guidebooks help ski touring grow responsibly.

How do you outfit a kid for uphill skiing with only $50? Andy Sovick searches far and wide for boots, skis, bindings and skins for the perfect DIY getup.

Gear and people repair kits for backcountry ski touring.

Backcountry telemark skiing appears to be on life support, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead. Here are some things that could resurrect it to its former ski touring glory.

Training in ski touring often focuses on uphill fitness, but the ultimate goal is to ski down. Here, some fitness tips for the coveted descent.

The Navis Freebird proves its versatility and consistent fun factor on long days of climbing and descending in wide-ranging conditions, especially powder.

Whether it’s snowing in zero degrees or blasting sun in the 90s, in the middle of the night or the height of the day, the Julbo Aerospeed glasses perform.

Ski touring news roundup, Sept. 2019: death of Davo Karnicar, e-bikes, overtourism, and Norway always comes out ahead.

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.

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.

Getting that IFMGA guide pin, retreating Arctic sea ice, carbon offsets for travel, becoming an American in Chamonix: Rob Coppolillo tells it

On a volcano ski trip around the Pacific Northwest, all the stoke in the world couldn’t surpass closed roads, rain, avi danger, down trees, and the simple fact that Northwest volcanos are actually very far apart.