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Diamonds on the Inside: A Closer Look at Black Diamond's $90-million Sale
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On May 7, Black Diamond went public in a reverse merger with backpack manufacturer Gregory Mountain Products. BD Ski Category Director Thomas Laakso offers his perspective.

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New Course Enlivens 2010 US Ski Mountaineering Championship
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This year's US Ski Mountaineering Championship was the largest in the organization's history...

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The Schralpinist, Further Exposed
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Tennessee native Ben Clark left home at age 19, delaying his career path as an architect to follow his dream: to climb Mount Everest. Four years later he stood on the summit and wondered what to do next...

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Backcountry Wins Northern Lights Award for Journalism
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Backcountry Magazine editor, writer and photographer Drew Pogge's feature "The Ghost Coast: Labrador's Torngat Mountains" was recently awarded first place in the independent journalist category of the 14th Annual Northern Lights Awards...

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2010 Gear Test Week: Snowboard Update
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What are the ingredients to a killer snowboard test?

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2010 Gear Test Week, Day 6: Hot Dogs and Goodbyes
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The only routine drawback to the Backcountry Gear Test Week is that, at some point, it has to end...

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2010 Gear Test Week, Day 5: Fresh Tracks
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A bit of math - 40 testers times an average of perhaps 15 laps each - will tell you that our humble crew lays down about 600 tracks each day...

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2010 Gear Test Week, Day 4: Pow
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We were told to expect cloudy skies with a chance of rain today. But Powder Mountain again lived up to its moniker. And then some...

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2010 Gear Test Week, Day 3: Who's Who
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Wind ripped across the summit of Powder Mountain today. But the weather, no matter how hard it raged, couldn't keep up with our crew of gear testers...

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2010 Gear Test Week, Day 2: Launch
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Coffee, 250 pairs of skis, bluebird skies and six inches of new snow. Needless to say, the first official day of the 2010 Backcountry Gear Test Week started off right...

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2010 Gear Test Week, Day 1: Prep
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Two hot tubs. One king-size bed, blanketed in red. A fireplace of inlaid stone. This is the 2010 Backcountry Gear Test Week at Powder Mountain...

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Evolving the Impossible: The Impact of the Extreme
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An essay excerpt from Passion for Skiing that documents Dartmouth College's century-long role in the development of backcountry and extreme skiing...

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