Booking a backcountry ski hut in Colorado is more like trying to score Taylor Swift or Phish tickets than it is booking a hotel room. If you weren’t smashing a keyboard the second they went on-sale, you probably aren’t getting…
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I should have discarded two outdated rules years ago: never go with strangers or a guide. Here’s to a growth mindset at the Sunrise Hut with eight strangers and guides, Rob Coppolillo and Nino Guagliano.
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Backcountry skiing out of the French Ridge Hut, near Wanaka, New Zealand.
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Snow is starting to fall in the Alpine – Thomas Grandi, a ski guide based at the Talus Lodge in BC, eyes a changing landscape in the East Kootenays.
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A backcountry skiing yurt trip to Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains, a.k.a. Little Switzerland, turns into a search for crust-free snow.
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Hut trips are a great way to get kids into the mountains. Cindy Hirschfield recalls hut trips with her own family and offers tips for getting started.
Reviews, opinions and ruminations about backcountry shelter structures and roadside lodges or gasthaus pension devoted to ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing.