Backcountry Magazine 136 - The 2021 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Backcountry Magazine 136 - The 2021 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Print IssueWith colder days ahead, we present you with a moment of pause in our Photo Annual: a culmination of the best backcountry photos of the year, meticulously selected to get your brain ready for winter. Alongside our Photo Annual, we include the musings of Fifty Classics Ski Descents in North America co author Art Burrows on Cody Townsend and Noah Howells attempts to ski every line in the book. Then we dive headfirst into the history of splitboarding,

Escape to Little Bavaria

with no bolts and often without motorized transport

Not even close

Actually the USSR

ALLIED FORCES

Why Riding Rules in Alpen Villages

Untracked In a debate with a fellow guide about the current state of mountaineering

Amrita Dhar finds old music on red sandstone

thanks to innovation and one NASA rocket scientist

the Generations Issue stands as proof that backcountry skiing and riding are lifelong sports

but a small group of mountain-town organic farmers also knows that winter powder days bring bountiful harvests through summer and autumn

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