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Backcountry Magazine 1-Year Subscription PrintSubscribe now to get the 2025 Gear Guide, shipping at the end of September. The kickoff issue of Backcountry Magazines 30th anniversary volume will include 56 Editors Choice Awards, given to the skis, boots, boards and more that scored highest at our annual Gear Test Week. Plus, there will be highlights from the past 30 years of Backcountry Magazine gear coverage including some of the most iconic backcountry skis, boots and splits, and the tech that

Senior Editor Craig Dostie had the opportunity to break trail for him one last time in Tahoe's West Shore backcountry

We’ve profiled five personalities in transition

it's about time

Despite all the left-to-die scandals on other 8000-meter peaks

PLAYING THE SLOTS

Steve Swenson returns to the history of K2 (8611m) in 1974

Burns and Douglas McCarty share encounters with one of the most prolific and complicated alpinists of our time

Of Liberals

we extended that to Gear Test Week

On getting chicked

" Around seven decades later

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