Backcountry Magazine 156 | The Backwoods Issue Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Backcountry Magazine 156 | The Backwoods Issue Print or Digital?:Print IssueOn the Cover: Caite Zeliff fell in love with the freedom of skiing as a kid in New Hampshires White Mountains. Eventually, the sport became her livelihood: first receiving a college ski racing scholarship, then chasing podium purses as a competitive freeride skier and, finally, becoming a sponsored professional athlete. At some point, the joy disappeared, but Zeliff is working to get it back. She says she found some of it on this day, skiing on the

Jennifer Lowe-Anker

Vendors must have packed and vacated the property by 9 p

For 25 years

FINDING COMFORT IN GUATEMALA

Words and Images by Mary McIntyre

Molly Cameron

Bob Craig and Luca Signorelli offer their own interpretations of what it has meant—and still means—to climb on the "mountaineer's mountain

Mexican climber Luis Carlos García Ayala became friends with a local cook

the American Avalanche Association (AAA) dramatically altered the face of U

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CROSS EXAMINATION

in towns like Smithers and Terrace