Law of unintended consequences: Some years ago, environmentalists pushed for creation of small pocket wilderness areas in the Utah Wasatch mountains. Such legal wilderness is frequently too far from road access for much human-powered winter recreation such as backcountry skiing.…
backcountry skiing
Backcountry skiing is THE top subject of WildSnow.com
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I’m now a Polo Ralph Lauren ski touring model (be glad: hats, not underwear), backcountry here I come.
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Aspen Real Estate — Shameful Fantasy or Incredible Reality? One of my most embarrassing fantasies is to live in Aspen again, at the base of Aspen Mountain, like I did for a period in the 1970s. We found a condo…
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You’ve got to give the New York Times props for trying to cover adventure skiing. But they need an editor who knows something about the sport (I might need such an editor as well — but that’s another story.) Past…
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Blog post to link to Couloir Magazine Craig Dostie interview during OR show 2005.
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Where does it end? After we’ve populated every square inch of the backcountry with wolves, grizzly bears, lynx and other sexy pets, do we then start with every other species that’s ever lived there — all the while pushing humans farther and farther away because they might make it hard for the new animals to procreate?
