Each week, Basecamp TV, in collaboration with Andrew McLean, brings you new skills to help grow your ski mountaineering gray matter and improve your understanding of how to move in technical terrain.
Ski Mountaineering Skills with Andrew McLean: Anchors
In this episode, Andrew McLean stands his ground with anchor building skills for that instance when skiing is just not an option.
Ski Mountaineering Skills with Andrew McLean: Ropes
In the latest episode of Basecamp TV, Andrew McLean gets tied up in the details about useful ski-mountaineering rope skills.
Skintrack Sketches: Artist Nikki Frumkin blurs the lines of art and adventure
Seattle-based artist Nikki Frumkin likes to do her work on the go. Her penchant for adventure takes her on multi-day forays into the backcountry in both winter and summer, with a piece of paper and a small watercolor set as her only tools of the trade.
Remembering John Galvin: Three Mountain Rescue-Aspen members look back on their time with fellow MRA rescuer
Galvin, 57, was no stranger to avalanche safety and backcountry travel, and while the incident that occurred on that April afternoon ended in tragedy, his fellow Mountain Rescue-Aspen members remember the legacy of successful rescues, compassion, dogged determination and a passion for the backcountry that Galvin left behind.
Mountain Skills: Looking beyond instability
Understanding the current level of risk related to avalanches should be paramount before, during and after your backcountry trip, but knowing what else to look for besides what’s in the bottom of a snow pit can be complicated.
Illusions of Safety: After a friend’s avalanche death, a lesson in intuition
In 2014 Kim Vinet, then a budding pro skier and tail ski guide, headed out on a trip at British Columbia’s Fairy Meadows Hut. On day six, the unthinkable happened when an avalanche killed a friend and member of her group. This is Kim’s story of intuition, trauma and finding her way back into the mountains when the illusion of safety has been shattered. Here is what she experienced in her own words.
Der Lange Weg: How seven ski mountaineers race 2,000 kilometers through the Alps
On March 17, a team of seven athletes from around the globe set off to recreate a traverse in the European Alps from Vienna, Austria to Nice, France—an expedition first completed in 1971 by Austrian mountaineers Robert Kittl, Klaus Hoi, Hansjörg Farbmacher and Hans Mariacher.
White Mountain National Forest Approves Two New Hampshire Glading Projects
New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) made history on March 30, when they approved two backcountry glading projects within their boundaries. The projects, spearheaded by the nonprofit Granite Backcountry Alliance (GBA), are located on Bartlett Mountain (2,661 ft.), which sits northeast of Intervale, New Hampshire, and Baldface Mountain (3,566 ft.), which lies on the […]
The Backside of Beyond: An essay by the late Allan Bard
Steve McQueen said, “I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” Edward Abbey referred to the urban scene as “syphilization.” We read between the lines and suspect a cure for the subtlest of modern maladies, the condition caused by the strained nervous sense of urgency that seems to define life in the city.
