Jeffersonville, VT., October, 2019: Celebrating 25 years, Backcountry Magazine is excited to announce a new travel opportunity for its audience, friends and industry partners: The Uncommon Line Adventure Works.
2020 Testers’ Choice: Betsy Manero’s Picks
The 17 inches of powder that fell on Powder Mountain, Utah this past March didn’t distract testers at the 2020 Gear Test Week from logging hours on this coming season’s newest skis, splitboards and boots to find the standouts across crud, corduroy and deep blower fresh.
2020 Testers’ Choice: Hans von Briesen’s Picks
The 17 inches of powder that fell on Powder Mountain, Utah this past March didn’t distract testers at the 2020 Gear Test Week from logging hours on this coming season’s newest skis, splitboards and boots to find the standouts across crud, corduroy and deep blower fresh.
2020 Gear Guide: Splitboard Accessories
To get you ready for your cold weather pursuits, we’ve complied some of our favorite new accessories to streamline your splitboarding experience.
Celebrating 25 years, Backcountry Magazine announces promotions for seminal season
Jeffersonville, Vt., October 2019: With the annual Gear Guide hitting newsstands and mailboxes around the country, independently-owned Backcountry Magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary with a shuffling of its veteran staff that has become the most seasoned in snowsports media. Longtime managing editor Lucy Higgins has been promoted to editor in chief, replacing Tyler Cohen, who […]
2020 Gear Guide: Skinning Gear Part II
Beacon, shovel, probe—it’s the basic backcountry checklist. But there’s more to a comfortable day on the skintrack than those three essentials— here is our second installment of skinning gear to keep you moving in the right direction. Want tester feedback on these products? Subscribe now or pre-order in our online store to get a copy of Backcountry Magazine’s 2020 Gear Guide […]
Skintrack Sketches: Artist and designer Joseph Toney takes an abstract view of the skintrack
Unconfined by the limits of ski graphic design, Toney often hits the skintrack to find his subjects, painting mountains he sees and photographs while skiing or hiking.
2020 Gear Guide: Skinning Gear Part I
Getting the contents of your pack dialed for a long day on the skintrack can be an uphill battle, from tackling morning-of skin prep for better glide to bringing the right layering options to survive sweaty slogs and bone-chilling descents.
Skintrack Sketches: How Eric Pollard balances art and professional skiing
Freeskier Eric Pollard has spent nearly two decades working within in the ski industry, from crafting skis with LINE to starting the film company Nimbus Independent—all while creating illustrations and paintings that capture these experiences.
After four years in the making, Vermont ski film Leave Nice Tracks to be released
For the Vermont-based Rochester/Randolph Area Sports Trails Alliance (RASTA), their film journey’s been a long one, but one now close to its debut. Editor in Chief Lucy Higgins first chatted with the men behind the film, Marius Becker, Dan Crienza and Kyle Crichton, in 2015 as they began documenting the alliance’s mission to develop a purpose-built backcountry ski network in the central Green Mountains of Vermont.
