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.

This year's US Ski Mountaineering Championship was the largest in the organization's history...

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...

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...

What are the ingredients to a killer snowboard test?

The only routine drawback to the Backcountry Gear Test Week is that, at some point, it has to end...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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