Backcountry Magazine October 2013 – The New Ski Bum

The New Ski Bum | Sheep Creek Tragedy | Crater Lake, Ore. | Andreas Fransson

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If you aren’t already a ski bum, chances are becoming one has crossed your mind. In this issue, Drew Pogge, Dick Dorworth and Peter Kray examine the evolution of the ski bum, and how backcountry culture is revolutionizing the dirtbag fringe. Also in the issue, we profile Andreas Fransson, king of the steeps, in his home element: the extreme terrain of Chamonix, France. Plus, Tess Weaver explores the vertical side of Crater Lake, Ore., we reflect on the lessons of last winter’s tragic Sheep Creek avalanche, and Vasu Sojitra talks about what it takes to ski the backcountry with one leg.

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: DOUG STOUP: THE ICEMAN
From playing NCAA soccer to a successful modeling and acting career to being the top polar explorer of his time, Doug Stoup is an enigma. Host Adam Howard recently journeyed to Antarctica with Stoup and their conversation ranges from Doug’s personal training of A-list Hollywood actors to near death experiences; adventures with Doug Coombs; and taking novice skiers to the South Pole.
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: TELE MIKE RUSSELL: TURNS FOR ALL
Tele Mike Russell grew up as a sharecropper’s son in Delaware before attending college and becoming an executive in the pharmaceutical industry. Then he watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center and decided he’d better follow another path, this one to skiing in Colorado, where he’d go on to find a family in the National Brotherhood of Skiers and help found its backcountry program.
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: ERIC BLEHM: MEET YOUR HEROES
Eric Blehm’s roots in snowboarding run deep. He started riding during the sport’s infancy, and after college became an editor at Transworld SNOWboarding Magazine. Years later, he was in a lift line when a fellow rider saw the “Craig Kelly is my Co-Pilot” sticker on his board, and asked Blehm: “Who is Craig Kelly?” He was floored by the notion that there were snowboarders out there who didn’t know who Craig was. And this inspired him to write The Darkest White.
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