The 12th annual Backcountry BASECAMP tour, presented by Flylow, brings the beta published in every issue of Backcountry Magazine to resorts across the U.S.
From the Northeast to the Tetons, the Wasatch to the Front Range, Backcountry Magazine joins local guides, forecasters and avalanche instructors for a series of pop-up festivals featuring gear demos, avalanche education, guided tours and a huge raffle benefitting a local nonprofit.
Sticking to your plan is easier said than done. But, it’s one of the best ways to stay safe in the backcountry.
Personal hardship led Julie McGuire to backcountry skiing. This winter she became the third person and first woman to ski all 33 of the Catskill Mountains’ High Peaks.
Legendary skier Greg Hill’s memoir, I Could Die at Any Moment contemplates the inherent risk of spending a life in the mountains.
In this Editor’s Note from our 2025 Photo Annual, Greta Close flips through her dad’s old photos. It’s a Tuesday night in October, and I’m home from Washington. Since he used to live in the Cascades, Dad’s putting on a slideshow. There’s an image on the screen: Two parallel tracks overlay fresh, white, wind-drifted dollops […]
Esteemed mountaineer Louis “Lou” Dawson’s memoir, Avalanche Dreams, is required reading for any backcountry enthusiast.
After Hurricane Helene, ski towns in the American Southeast have come together to recover from environmental disaster.
On December 7, 2024, the short ski film Totality will be premiering at the J Skis headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.
Backcountry and telemark skiing pioneer Paul Parker died Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, after a battle with cancer.
A recent Forest Service hiring freeze leaves the backcountry community concerned about avalanche centers’ bandwidths this coming winter.
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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We’ve compiled a database of U.S. resorts with a little about each individual policy—where and when skinning is allowed, whether or not it’s free during operating hours and the link directly to the resort’s guidelines.
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