Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue accessories

Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue accessoriesFEATURES ESSAYS Snow Roads Driven In 1975 Dick Dorworth wrote a seminal piece titled Night Driving. With this essay in mind, we asked Dick to put some snow on the road and reboot. Skiing is Believing Sometimes the climb is as good as the descent. And if all snow were as light as the snow Drew Pogge writes of, the climb would be all we need. Perpetual Motion Skiers who don't know any better think topping out and transitioning on a splitboard is slow.

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snowboarders explore the planet's most remote terrain

Despite knowing in high school that he wanted to be an engineer for Trek

we cashed in on our most reliable resource—those testers who come to Powder Mountain

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” photojournalist Dana Allen bikepacks the Maine Huts & Trails network

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14 inches of Powder’s namesake greeted our 40-person test team

"Meru" is the name of a mythic peak that rises at the center of the world

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