Backcountry Magazine November 2015 - The People Issue Back Issue

Backcountry Magazine November 2015 - The People Issue Back IssueAs backcountry skiing and riding shift and develop, so do its people. And the November issue is here to profile those transitions, as pro skiers become guides, guides become mothers and ski bums turn into entrepreneurs. This issue is all about the ambition and innovation that keep characters involvedand leadingin the backcountry. Weve profiled five personalities in transition, including Tyler and Bryce Kloster, who ditched their corporate jobs to

IT’S BEEN WAY TOO LONG

10 - Sharp End An editor pays tribute to the mountain that remains at the heart of Alpinist

The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation celebrates history and looks to the future on the 50th anniversary of northern Wisconsin's first World Cup race

WISDOM: PASSPORT

Their combined 400 kilometers of trails makes the Tahoe area one of the largest concentrations of cross country skiing in the U

the big gun pinned big lines

he spent the next decades of his life pursuing a mountain that seemed at once the symbol of a mythic past and the gateway to his own transcendence

The Line of Shadow In 2016 alpinist Brette Harrington received a message from her partner

And Dick Dorworth learns the real meaning of freedom

regardless of how they slide

the ice and the heavy storms

Pioneering the North Cascade’s Picket Traverse Telluride Resort to offer guided sidecountry program USFS considers fees for Colorado fourteeners Breakout photographer Jason Hummel In memoriam of Thomas Charry