Backcountry Magazine 138 - The 2021 Skills Guide Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Backcountry Magazine 138 - The 2021 Skills Guide Print or Digital?:Print IssueLevel up your backcountry game with our fourth annual Skills Guide. In it, we talk to guides, avalanche instructors, ski mountaineers and outdoor educators to glean their best advice on eight essential skills. Improve your trip planning, sleuth better snow and more. But first, Brandon Blackburn shares his experiences of backcountry skiing while Black, David Goodman reflects on the history of touring in the Northeast and Ian McIntosh and Nick McNutt

The Climbing Life A writer visits heaven

STRAIGHT LINES: FOR BETTER OR WORSE

while ice avalanches chase him down

Department contents: Richie Schley cuts across sandy crust in Big Water

Ira Spring and a group of friends ventured into the range

venturing into terrain then believed to be reserved for only the boldest (and some claimed the most reckless) men

Last winter in Austria

Is the term "first female ascent" still relevant

Tested: Alchemy Arktos 135

She's a travel agent

this story captures the people

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