Cross Country Skier Late Winter 2023 Gift

Cross Country Skier Late Winter 2023 GiftOn the cover: Eva Kaiser gets in a sunrise ski session in Kaufbeuren, Germany, before heading to work. [Photo] Christoph Jorda FEATURES Photo Annual Once a winter, we let our photographers take over additional pages of the magazine, knowing that their images of athletes in the throes of competition or skiers spending restorative time in nature deserve a more prominent showcase. From unexpected perspectives of groomed tracks to classic Scandinavian

9 cm to 60 cm)

a New Hampshire guide established one of the East Coast's most difficult boltless mixed lines—wearing homemade fruitboots

Pavel Shabalin and Dawa Steven Sherpa offer their own stories of "creative mountaineering" on the world's highest peak

Thinking Outside the Avalance Poodle Box

after a long struggle with illness

and Jack O'Brien processes the hate for his beloved telemarking

our testers assessed a slew of gear on both Eastern and Western snowpacks

Mexican climber Luis Carlos García Ayala became friends with a local cook

and the indefatigable Bosley Sidwell calls for applicants to join an imaginary mountain expedition

and Park City

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