Backcountry Magazine 153 | The Core Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) have become a mainstay

have become a mainstay

That’s what happened when Christina Lustenberger

His quest for the meaning of alpinism is just as intense

[On the Cover] Jonathan Mansuel pedals up a peak overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Farstad

Hudson Bay Mountain and beyond

Backcountry Magazine 153 | The Core Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) have become a mainstayOn the Cover: As a winter storm buried B. C.s Selkirk Mountains, Bruno Long and Chris Rubens hung their soaking gear to dry and settled into their sleeping bags. In the morning, the trail breaking felt like a contact sport. But when the skiing is this deep and the shots this good, no one was really complaining about getting a little bit wet, says Long. Above an untouched powder field, a subtle shift in mindset occurred and, in the pillows below,