Alpin Magazine backcountry skiing ski reviews for 2010 and 2011 season.
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Cancer recovery and a backcountry skier, his story.
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New Tecnica boots and Blizzard skis for the freeride backcountry beef boot and ski market, look good.
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A backcountry skiing slog through the Elk Mountains of Colorado
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Candace reviews the Flylow Ginger pant for women backcountry and frontcountry skiing.
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Feathered Friends Volant down jackets reviewed, for backcountry skiing or expedition use
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This weekend we heard from WildSnow’s Director of Year Around Skiing. Louie is ensconced at Cheeseman ski field , working as staff up there doing everything from repairs to ski patrolling. “The internet we’ve got is half the speed of dialup,” he said, “it’s been snowing for three days, everything is above timberline and we spend all day in whiteout blizzard conditions — it’s great. Oh, and sorry about the core shots in your Mount Bakers…I’m holding the Coombacks in reserve till the snowpack builds up.
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Today (Sunday) was an odd day. Louie, Lisa and I planned to ski a big peak near Independence Pass, but woke up to rain here in Carbondale. We did our super early start just in case the weather was isolated,…
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Crested Butte newspaper is full of flood angst, yesterday we ski slush that never got the nightly firm-up. Then today we head out for Mineral Point and what do we get? Full on blizzard conditions. Abused the Nytro driving on…
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So, Fritz was nice enough to lend us his Skoda for a drive over to Switzerland to reach some higher ski touring (if the weather cooperates) and visit Lisa’s relatives in the town of Frutigen (where Fritschi happens to be…
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Snow Dancing In Moab, Utah after a long fun winter of skiing in Colorado.
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You know how sometimes something dredges up emotions you didn’t know you had deep inside you? I had an experience like that a few days ago.
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Steep ski movie, review for backcountry skiers and ski mountaineers by Polly McLean.
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Randonnee Gear Makes Top 10 in Elk Mountains Traverse (Wick and Sullivan Take 6th) — and a short Hayden trip report
by Louis Dawsonby Louis DawsonBryan Wickenhauser and Eric Sullivan made history today when they placed sixth in the Elk Mountains Traverse race using their randonnee race gear (Trab skis and Scarpa F1 boots) instead of the usual nordic gear favored by past year’s race…
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Up here on the northern half of spaceship earth we are definitely in the dog days, but they’re having at it down south. In more ways than one. I was amused by this ditty from Ingrid Backstrom about the interesting…
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Last of the Ski Bums is the highlight of all this. What a movie! Made in 1967 for only $12,000 and distributed as a feature film, this flick was to my generation what Blizzard of Ahhhs was to the current “freeride” crowd.
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Mount Princeton Backcountry Ski Descent – Colorado Fourteeners
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Our culture’s (or human kind’s?) obsession with the gladiator is fascinating. Rednecks enjoy NASCAR and boxing. Cultural elites sniff, then snap up books by John Krakaur and Aron Ralston like they’re going out of style. The risks our gladiators take…
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Review of Cloudveil Serendipity softshell jacket, historic early shell from 2003 set the trend for years.
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