skier: KC Deane | photo: Grant Gunderson | location: Mt.Bachelor, OR
features
Photographer’s Journals
Scott DW Smith takes us on an early season tour of his stomping grounds, the San Juans of Southern Colorado. Plus: A deep dive into Ryan Creary’s Revelstoke playground.
Four High Country Entrepreneurs
Changing sustainable seafood, one T-shirt at a time. Turning consumers into volunteers to keep water fresh. Reviving military materials—and vets—with tough and stylish satchels. Licensed to fight evil, empowered by Millennials.
Mountain’s All-Access Guide to Backcountry Adventure
Seven summits and 30,000 acres from one hut, heli-touring at CMH Adamants Lodge and in the Ruby Mountains, Colorado’s 10th Mountain Division Hut Association, and Nordic thru-skiing in Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Inherently Unstable
The courts weigh in on assumed skier risk at resorts in avalanche country.
The Ski Industry Takes on Dirty Coal
How skiers, resorts, and outdoor industries are working to halt climate change.
One Way to Die in the West
Author Jon Billman reports on the rising number of suicide deaths in the Rockies.
Weed in the High Country
Legalization has impacted small mountain towns for good and for bad.
departments + columns
Mtn Gallery
Sick shots from our favorite photographers.
Mtn Report
Angel Collinson, skiing’s newest homegrown film star. Canada’s Global Mountain Solutions pioneers a new market for mountain guides. Six hopping festivals where the skiing is as good as the banjo jams. Plus: Your winter reading list.
Time Tested Gear
Swami weighs in cold-weather bike tops, nordic and alpine ski gear, winter staples, and must-have one-offs, including a fossil fuel-free stove, fancy food, and some sleep aids. Plus, crossover apparel to take you from the hill to the bar.
Mtn Lodges
Ski hard, sleep deep: Cool places to stay in the high country, including a New Mexican ranch, a Vermont farmhouse turned eco B&B, a century-old Montana hotel, and a California landmark that sits less than 15 miles from a handful of world-class resorts. Plus, three mountain properties and what they sold for.
Mtn Advocate
Olaf Sueters of Gear4Guides builds ski tourism in Kyrgyzstan.
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