Is slogging up a ski area for five hours the way to start a classic ski tour in the Alps? No. So day one or our Silvretta adventure involved a few ski lifts, which then morphed to an easy short tour leading to the Heidelberger Hutte.
Alps
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Black Diamond Spot and Icon headlamps reviewed, great choices for night time backcountry skiing, biking, running or camping
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(Valued readers, we return to our series of European trip reports from my travels several weeks ago. In this installment, WildSnow ends up in Livigno, Italy on the way to Bormio to visit Trab Skis.) I like to read a…
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Being crafty ski mountaineers, the locals I ski with here don’t go for much super-alpine terrain in midwinter, as the weather and avalanche danger up high makes it tough to put together a quality excursion. But get a string of…
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Backcountry skiing in Austria, you’d better be fast and fit and ready for some really good skiers, fun stuff.
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Reviewing all the movies at Aspen Ski Co’s “Meeting” is like herding cats. You’ve got the big tom in the lead, a few panting yowlers in the middle and some kittens at the rear. I was going to cover some…
