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Magazine and website covering gear reviews, instruction, how-to, safety, and travel for all things backcountry skiing, telemark, mountaineering & snowboarding.
Backcountry Magazine
5d ago
Present [Photo] Iz La Motte 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 […]
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Backcountry Magazine
2w ago
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.
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Backcountry Magazine
2w ago
Legendary skier Greg Hill's memoir, I Could Die at Any Moment contemplates the inherent risk of spending a life in the mountains.
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Backcountry Magazine
1M ago
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 […]
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Backcountry Magazine
1M ago
The debut of the new Scarpa TX Pro, our 2025 Editors' Choice telemark boot, marks an exciting, and long awaited, development in telemark gear.
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Backcountry Magazine
2M ago
From powder skis to quiver-killers to skimo options, check out this year's Editors' Choice backcountry skis reviews.
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Backcountry Magazine
2M ago
Our 2025 Editors' Choice apparel includes an assortment of layers, from hard- and soft-shells to puffies to baselayers.
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Backcountry Magazine
2M ago
The best backcountry ski boots of 2025, from 130 flex to the skimo-inspired, reviewed.
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Backcountry Magazine
2M ago
Our 2025 Editors' Choice boot and bindings picks feature both soft- and hard-boot setups.
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Backcountry Magazine
2M ago
From techincal ascents to powder-filled descents, our 2025 Editors' Choice ski bindings offer a seamless blend of durability and versatility.
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