Backcountry

We know your new outerwear looks great when you’re skiing, but we heard you can step it up a notch everywhere else.

Big-deal outerwear companies collaborate to design backcountry-oriented bibs and jackets.

BCA Ambassadors Riley Leboe, Mike Henitiuk, and Matt Margetts are out to send it, and return.

Sure, snowpants are great, but there's a time and a place for them.

An insulated layer that's surprisingly good at almost everything.

The brand tests their new binding by going on a winter camping trip with some of the hardest chargers in skiing.

Packs to carry the essentials you need to get up and get down safely.

Paws don’t have edges and sintered bases, but they sure seem to do the trick.

Fitness fans, a gear revolution and easier slope access fuels a sport's ascent.

One photographer’s mission to ski—and document—the remote glaciers of Washington before they disappear. Stop two: Mount Rainier.

There are plenty of lines beyond the ropes, but it's always best to go with someone who knows.

Tailgate Alaska offers pros and novices alike a weeklong party and access to some of the planet's greatest terrain.

The endless backcountry terrain surrounding Cooke City, Mont., is as wild and wily as the town itself. Beartooth Powder Guides attempts to tame it.

McKenna Peterson provides insight on the motives behind days and nights of waiting, the hidden marvels in the Fairweather Range, and the big lines on the Peak of Ill Repute.

The key to avoiding backcountry fatalities may lie in hiring a guide. But not everyone is on board with that idea... yet.

The season when learning to ski becomes living to ski.

Great Northern Powder Guides already claims the title of Montana's only cat skiing operator. If all goes as planned, it will become the state's only heli op as well.

In no particular order, Minna Rihimaki has a lot of her plate.

You remember the original "Shit Skier Girls Say," when Lynsey Dyer and friends get the shot, have to pee and you know, girl stuff. They're back and this time in the backcountry.

A small team of skiers strapped an obnoxious amount of gear to bicycles and rode through cold, arctic Norway.

Brian Mohr was tired of sketchy avalanche conditions, so he moved East where there’s a growing backcountry community.

One skier’s ambitious plan to take his entire family, including his over-the-hill parents, on their very first hut trip.

Walkable boot soles for alpiners. More customizable shells than ever. And what’s up with shrinking ski widths? Find out here.

Mt. Baker general manager Duncan Howat wants you to enjoy the überdeep backcountry powder his resort
 is famous for—but only if you do so by his rules.