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  • Cooking with “Beyond Skid: A Cookbook for Ski Bums”

    by Jason Albert July 20, 2022
    by Jason Albert July 20, 2022

    Beyond Skid: A Cookbook for Ski Bums offers up a slew of modernist recipes for backcountry skiers loking for some menu inspriation.

  • Oregon Ski Atlas: A Photographic Guide to Skiing The High Cascades – Review

    by Jason Albert January 17, 2022
    by Jason Albert January 17, 2022

    The Oregon Ski Atlas brings the skiable terrain of Oregon’s bigger peaks to print. It also leaves plenty of adventure for those willing to find it.

  • There And Back: Photographs from the Edge – Book Review

    by Jason Albert December 27, 2021
    by Jason Albert December 27, 2021

    Jimmy Chin’s There And Back: Photographs from the Edge, offers up a mega-glimpse into the adventurer’s catalogue of work behind the camera lens.

  • Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest- Book Review

    by Jason Albert December 9, 2021
    by Jason Albert December 9, 2021

    Book review of Lowell Skoog’s “Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest,” in which the author covers the fabric of the region’s backcountry skiing history.

  • Wager With The Wind — Book Review

    by Lou Dawson July 12, 2021
    by Lou Dawson July 12, 2021

    Book review of Wager with the Wind by James Greiner covering Don Sheldon and Alaska bush flying aviation on Denali and beyond.

  • Everest — The Third Pole — Book Review

    by Lou Dawson June 2, 2021
    by Lou Dawson June 2, 2021

    Review of Mount Everest book, Third Pole, by Mark Synnott.

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