Earlier this month, I hopped a plane (actually four) to the Republic of Georgia, a tiny country on the border of Russia and ...

Backcountry ski touring means traveling on much more gradual slopes on trails that serve as easy hikes in the summer.

Planning a ski trip can be an involved process, depending on how far you're hoping to go and what kind of skiing you're looking to do. Adding backcountry skiing into that equation adds a whole other ...

View post: Dozens of Skiers Rescued From Gondola at Gore Mountain They might not admit it, but there’s no denying that skiers were way gnarlier back in the ’70s and ’80s, especially when it came to ...

We live in a good time when it comes to choosing gear to take in the high peaks for backcountry skiing. Long gone from the days of unreliable bindings, heavy skis, and gear that just didn’t quite work ...

Coming up with a list of backcountry skiing destinations isn’t quite as easy as our typical resort guides. Backcountry skiing is inherently about exploration, getting away from the crowds, and ...

Rescue officials say the skier decided to climb up, 700 vertical feet to the gulley, because they had no other option.

The group is a mixed bag of professionals and personalities, aged 20 to 80, who are part of Five Winds Backcountry Ski and Snowshoe Club, a nonprofit volunteer organization that, for more than half a ...

After gaining such wide acclaim from his debut film, The Blackcountry Journal, Mallory Duncan felt he’d earned it. “I came ...

In 2002, POWDER stared down an age-old debate topic: localism and gatekeeping, particularly in backcountry ski areas. Two writers in the Dueling Banjos section duked it out. One fought for the right ...