backcountry skiing

The good backcountry skiing goods are there on Steens Mountain. For the most part, though, we stumbled through miles of sagebrush and into the Danger Zone.

Mt Sanford from the road; an Alaskan adventure for two brothers ascending the sixth-highest U.S. peak in style and descending on skis.

Prayers, deference to the weather gods, head down in the sand, whatever your mantra may be, the cosmos delivered for backcountry skiers: big snow.

Kelly Cordes evolves from backscratchers to slipping and sliding through the forest on skins. And then stops above a seven-degree slope and rips skins.

The G3 FINDr 86 is a damp, relatively light ski. Unless you consider magnetic contact points bling, there’s no flashiness, only down-to-earth skiability.

TDP Episode 96: Doug and Randy banter about the high-pressure January, Dynafit’s new 22/23 boot, and data-driven ways to stay motivated for the dawn patrol.