Backcountry Magazine December 2012 - Photo Annual issue

Backcountry Magazine December 2012 - Photo Annual issueFEATURES Sky People and Powder Eighty miles south of Wyoming's Teton Mountains are the Wind Rivers, a range seldom visited in winter but rumored to be a couloir skiing paradise. Last May, Brigid Mander and crew left spicy spring conditions in Jackson for the Winds where they found the skier's Valhalla they were expecting. That is until the Shoshone Sky People expelling them with wolverines, whiteouts and midwinter conditions. The Life and Death a

the mountain on which it lies and the peaks that surround it

coach of Olympians

hundreds of climbers have etched

wacky and fringe of the sport

On Belay In recent years

$500 per 100 square feet—that’s 10’x10’

Katie Holden was afraid to even ride through a ditch

ROUTE FINDING

contributor George Koch traveled the Four Mountain Tour

Through careful negotiations between the resort and his guiding company

the 2017 Apparel Guide rounds up the best—the classics and those layers that'll become classics

baselayers and puffies