G3 Onyx backcountry skiing bindings, this review covers important ski touring differences between Onyx, Dynafit, Fritschi and others.
backcountry skiing
Backcountry skiing is THE top subject of WildSnow.com
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Finding a clever captions for a funny backcountry skiing photo.
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BBQ on Independence Pass, Colorado, where backcountry skiers gather for the spring corn snow festival
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Backcountry skiing Independence Pass, Colorado, Geissler Peak. Good corn snow conditions for late May.
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Case in point: Alpinist Magazine, that wonderful large format pub that tastes and smells of the high alpine, was bought last winter by the same folks who publish Backcountry Magaine. More, they acquired former and famed Climbing Magazine publisher Michael Kennedy as Editor in Chief, meaning my old friend and climbing partner “MK” is charge of making sure the pages look and read as good as we’d expect from such a magazine.
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Tony had gotten a brain scan a few days before we skied Hayden last year. As it turned out, while he was up there getting 6,000 vert on a big Colorado mountain, the scan interpreter noticed a blood vessel in his brain was ballooned out in a large and potentially deadly aneurysm. It the thing had ruptured, even in civilization his chances of surviving would have been rare. Up on a mountain? Zero percent. In a word, it is miraculous Tony didn’t stroke out (as in permanently) during our Hayden Ski, what with the dehydration and raised blood pressure of hard endurance athletics.
