Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue Jeremy Collins Accessories Guide

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first descents and The Earl of Sandwich

CHANGING THE SNOWBOARD LANDSCAPE

As Kurt Diemberger once asked: "how many times will we go to K2

and they've shaped the way we see the backcountry

Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue Jeremy Collins Accessories GuideFEATURES ESSAYS Snow Roads Driven In 1975 Dick Dorworth wrote a seminal piece titled Night Driving. With this essay in mind, we asked Dick to put some snow on the road and reboot. Skiing is Believing Sometimes the climb is as good as the descent. And if all snow were as light as the snow Drew Pogge writes of, the climb would be all we need. Perpetual Motion Skiers who don't know any better think topping out and transitioning on a splitboard is slow.