backcountry skiing

Backcountry skiing out of the French Ridge Hut, near Wanaka, New Zealand.

Lifestraw’s new Peak Squeeze and Peak Straw bundles small scale water filtration with a big upside for late season ski tours; never getting caught out with non-potable water.

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.