Alpinist Magazine Issue 68 - Winter 2019-20 issue

Alpinist Magazine Issue 68 - Winter 2019-20 issue*The digital issue is a downloadable pdf Cover: Shawnt Salabert examines what it might really mean to leave a trace or not. Manoah Ainuu on Neat (5. 10), Optimator Wall, Indian Creek, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah. [Photo] Caitlin McNulty Features Art of the Topo Before his death in 2017, Hayden Kennedy pitched Alpinist a story on what he saw as the endangered art of the topo. Alongside the draft Kennedy left behind, Jeremy Collins, Clay Wadman,

Every summer

Letters A member of The Brotherhood writes back to The Squishy Bunny Bunch

Parker claims it was the opposite

Shawnté Salabert recalls an unusual heroine

Professor Lance Riek butts in with the beta on powder

PERSPECTIVE: CATCH THE BREAK

But what happens when weather

Professional skier Colter Hinchliffe reflects on a day of powsurfing gone wrong

on 8000-meter peaks

Not to miss—Greg Petrics details a conservation restriction for caribou that's limiting some of the best—and safest—ski terrain in Québec's Chic-Choc Mountains

” In his feature “The Warmth of Fire Mountain

jumps and other obstacles of cross country cross are putting a fresh spin on Nordic skiing