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Gear Review: Black Diamond Sabretooth Crampons Review Price: $179.95 Weight: 925 g  / 2 lb 1 oz Size: 36-46 Material: Stainless Steel (Older versions were made of Chromoly steel) Summary: The Black Diamond Sabretooth Crampon is versatile, durable, and bombproof. This crampon offers the security you need...
Maps Review: Beartooth Publishing Maps No backcountry adventure is complete without a detailed map for navigation. Without a map, you'd be lost. Typically, the most detailed maps available are USGS Quads with a 1:24,000 scale. While these maps are amazing resources, it's...
Watch Patience Is A Virtue - Backyard Roots This is the first episode of three in the Backyard Roots series. Featuring ski mountaineers KT Miller and Beau Fredlund, this beautifully done video highlights skiing in and around Cooke City, Montana and...
There are people who ski and people who don't. Skiing is a lifestyle choice. Countless people from all walks of life are drawn to the mountains like magnets. They devote their lives to sliding downhill. Whether they're resort riders,...
We all know it's been a warm winter with less snowfall than expected. If you're a backcountry skier or ski mountaineer who's still keen to go skiing, it's interesting to take a look at the snow data for the western...
The path to your backcountry ski destination is a blank canvas of snow. The only real way to get to the epic lines, steep couloirs, and wide open powder faces of the backcountry is via the skin track. When you're in...
The Beartooth Mountains of Montana are an incredible zone for backcountry skiing, ski mountaineering, climbing, hiking, and other activities. Here's a very cool video by Beau Fredlund and KT Miller that takes a closer look ski mountaineering in this...
Whether you're booting up a glacier in the Cascades, joining the herds on Teton Pass, crushing couloirs in the Beartooths, searching for summer snow on volcanoes in Chile, or hiking in bounds at Aspen Highlands, setting an efficient bootpack...
Gear Review: Black Diamond Raven Ultra Ice Axe Price: $109.95 Sizes: 50cm, 55cm, 60cm Weight: 50cm - 348 grams / 12 ounces Rating: CEN-B Summary: The Black Diamond Raven Ultra Ice Axe is the ideal axe for ski mountaineering and light alpine climbing. This ultralight axe features...
Book Review: The God Of Skiing By Peter Kray Yes, this is another review of The God of Skiing. And no, the book is not about Ullr. If you're looking for a book to read, pick up a copy of Peter...