Backcountry Magazine 136 - The 2021 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)

Backcountry Magazine 136 - The 2021 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)With colder days ahead, we present you with a moment of pause in our Photo Annual: a culmination of the best backcountry photos of the year, meticulously selected to get your brain ready for winter. Alongside our Photo Annual, we include the musings of Fifty Classics Ski Descents in North America co author Art Burrows on Cody Townsend and Noah Howells attempts to ski every line in the book. Then we dive headfirst into the history of splitboarding,

Courtship on skinny skis

faded and duct-taped pants

Lisa Roderick describes her first season as the manager of Kahiltna Basecamp

A throwback to freeskiing’s infancy

How to assess slope stability from above: Ski and cornice cuts

And while many of the resorts didn't stick around

On the Cover: H+I Adventures guides Bear and Jono power down a summit ridge in Torridon

at the complex impacts of professional climbing

to stay at Lofoten Ski Lodge and explore ski haunts and open vistas like this one

MOUNTAIN ACCOUNT: SURVIVING SHISHAPANGMA

a collection of Dick’s ski writing

623-foot Mount Titlis catches early season storms on its north facing slopes