Backcountry Magazine 159 | The Wild Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)

Backcountry Magazine 159 | The Wild Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)On the Cover: A lot happened in the 1950s. Queen Elizabeth II was coronated, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, the double helix structure of DNA was discovered, and Alaska and Hawaii became states. It was also the second of three decades during which the U. S. government and conservationists labored over how best to protect Washington States North Cascades. While discussions ensued in D. C. and beyond, Ira

Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good

Swedish filmmaker Bjarne Salén is changing that

Tim Hausermann shares how 20 little kilometers means so much to Nevada’s Nords

Busted bindings

Winter in Alaska is very dark

Before our collective eyes

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celebrating skiing and riding’s past while examining what the sport’s future may hold

From his roots as a Coast Range diehard to farming blueberries in Pemberton

the alpine battles of World War I

Nordic Rocks brings cross-country skiing to schoolyards

still pursuing innovative forms of alpinism