Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 OPTIONS_HIDDEN_PRODUCT

Cross Country Skier Winter 2017 OPTIONS_HIDDEN_PRODUCTFEATURES 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

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

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Mountain Skills: Secondhand Stoke

taken by photographer Günther Goberl

Gasherbrum III was the highest unclimbed peak in the world in 1975

Women Shred

Back to the Future

The Vermont-based nonprofit has been thoughtfully curated under the direction of Sabra Davison and now operates in 15 states with 36 programs

resort-based event featuring avy awareness

Wired For decades

" They were caught in another storm and had to descend within view of the summit ridge

he finds just what he was looking for in its shadow