Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue Bags

Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue BagsFEATURES ESSAYS Snow Roads Driven In 1975 Dick Dorworth wrote a seminal piece titled Night Driving. With this essay in mind, we asked Dick to put some snow on the road and reboot. Skiing is Believing Sometimes the climb is as good as the descent. And if all snow were as light as the snow Drew Pogge writes of, the climb would be all we need. Perpetual Motion Skiers who don't know any better think topping out and transitioning on a splitboard is slow.

Washington and Utah

First-Time Splitter

accompanied by a crew of offbeat friends and filmers

Everest guide Phurba Namgyal Sherpa recalls the 2015 earthquake

alpinists scampered about the sandstone boulders in the forest of Fontainebleau as practice for routes in the high mountains

the American Mountain Guides Association says "yes" to splitboarders

Letters Sculptor Philip Birchef shares memories of the "Buhlites" climbing club—and how Hermann Buhl's legacy has infuenced his own climbing and art

industry veterans

JOHN MORTON TALKS TRAILS

And then she discovered climbers

Tashi Sherpa stands atop Denali twice in three days—and explains why

Hayden Kennedy writes of an expedition to the Kishtwar Himalaya in India