Alpental's Backcountry
Travel
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With a microterrain of short couloirs, hidden passages, and pillow drops – not to mention 60-plus-degree faces spackled by sticky maritime snow – most of the 520 acres of Alpental’s out-of-bounds spread (divided into Near and Far Backcountry) is phenomenal. And by phenomenal, we mean rowdy.
OCTOBER 2005
