What you'll get at Valdez Heli-Ski Guides is ski-movie skiing, so bring your backpack full of courage.

Alaska Mountain Guides offers lift-accessed sidecountry tours out the gates of Alta, or straight-up backcountry trips in the surrounding Wasatch that include more uphill travel.

A portfolio of the photographer's work.

After learning to climb on Louisiana overpasses as a teen, Brandon Latham recently became a full-time rescue ranger on North America's highest mountain, 20,320-foot Mount McKinley ("Denali" to natives and the climbing community).

Girdwood, AK

It's time for costumes, pond skimming, and warm-weather celebrations.