Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 Accessories

Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 AccessoriesFEATURES 2017 LIGHT TOURING GEAR What sort of ski do you need when you're setting your own track on ungroomed, untracked terrain? What if your thing is climbing a mountain to Telemark down through bottomless powder? Our editors called in a few dozen pairs of skis, boots and bindings and, thanks to an ample, early season snowpack in Northern Vermont, put them through the paces. WAX WARS: ON THE WORLD CUP CIRCUIT, AMERICA IS DAVID Last winter, Hansi

As backcountry skiing and riding shift and develop

On Belay On a trip to the rarely visited Leaning Towers in British Columbia's Purcell Wilderness

THAT GUY: JD HARE

Sacrifices in pursuit of the skintrack

new hazards are up for consideration—including how your decisions might hurt others

How to assess slope stability from above: Ski and cornice cuts

- Comfortable envelope neckline

a form of commercialization has spread to the mountain's normal routes

In a small

most climbers hope to be rescued

Pressure Lift Forty years after Bob Plumb and Dave Stutzman's first ascent of the North Pillar on Devils Thumb (Taalkhunaxhk'u Shaa)

plus an exploration of Japan’s rise to backcountry-skiing prominence