Backcountry Magazine February/March 2013 - Sidecountry Special Report

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Backcountry Magazine February/March 2013 - Sidecountry Special ReportWhen the National Ski Areas Association published an editorial titled Theres No Such Thing As Sidecountry, we knew we had to join the resort accessed backcountry discussion. So we put together this issue to investigate the good, the bad and the ugly of sidecountry ridinginside, youll find everything from where to go to whom to hire, what to bring and what you need to know. But this issue goes far beyond resort gates, too. Canadian correspondent Ryan

Crenchaw became the first African American to climb Denali

he spent the next decades of his life pursuing a mountain that seemed at once the symbol of a mythic past and the gateway to his own transcendence

Ed Webster Tool Users Our assistant editor celebrates the book that most of us have read

but about navigating the future

Although the tale of monsoonlike rain on a long Squamish route sounds pretty grim

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Peter Beal sought a different kind of transcendence

Eight experts from across the globe weigh in on the evolution of avalanche safety

With this essay in mind

You gonna finish that

Canadian Avalanche Center's sleek new avalanche bulletin

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