Backcountry Magazine September 2010 - Gear Guide backcountry

Backcountry Magazine September 2010 - Gear Guide backcountryFeatures: Ski & Splitboard Design Revolution Is it in you: do you have what it takes to be a ski industry designer? Gear: 2011 ski test & gear guide How to: Time tested remedies for winter withdrawal Plus: Students build skis with exotic particles Duplicitous dubbing creates confusion when naming backcountry gear

her biographer Akihiro Oishi tries to see inside what Taniguchi called "the Pandora's box

writing as Biff America

We take a deep dive into how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting everything from ski films to the guiding industry to professional skiers' plans with interviews from the likes of IFMGA guide and board certified emergency physical Alan Oram

When Editor Adam Howard and photographer Jeff Diener went to Chamonix

they encounter a realm so vast and unfamiliar they need all four of their imaginations to tell even part of the tale

Libations and jokes aside

when he suddenly found himself stuck on an icy slope with a broken crampon and no easy way down

A re-examination

the Teton Range has stood as one of the preeminent cradles of American ski mountaineering

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Virginia's Vanished Shangri-La

In spite of it all