Backcountry Magazine 138 - The 2021 Skills Guide Mountain Flyer ’s Selkirk Mountains

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Community support and local avalanche educators fostered that evolution by giving the boys space to grieve and education to return to the hills safely

Mountain Profile: Forbidden Peak In 1936 Hermann Ulrichs commented in the American Alpine Journal that mountains in the North Cascades sometimes appear like “lonely sentinels

Backcountry Magazine 138 - The 2021 Skills Guide Mountain Flyer ’s Selkirk MountainsLevel up your backcountry game with our fourth annual Skills Guide. In it, we talk to guides, avalanche instructors, ski mountaineers and outdoor educators to glean their best advice on eight essential skills. Improve your trip planning, sleuth better snow and more. But first, Brandon Blackburn shares his experiences of backcountry skiing while Black, David Goodman reflects on the history of touring in the Northeast and Ian McIntosh and Nick McNutt