Backcountry Magazine 154 | The Blue Collar Issue Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Backcountry Magazine 154 | The Blue Collar Issue Print or Digital?:Print IssueOn the Cover: With dramatic relief and a knife edge ridgeline, Mount Smuts (9,639) is known in the summer months to be one of the most difficult climbing scrambles in the Canadian Rockies. But its a different story when the snow begins to fall. With a powder padding to ease his journey, Bryan Fenske follows the summit ridge bootpack toward Smuts, with the hopes of skiing the peaks nearly 50 degree south face, one of the classic lines in Albertas

and ski mountaineer Jan Reynolds travels to the Pirin and Rila Mountains of Bulgaria to explore knife-edged no-fall zones and the welcoming communities far below

Mike Westmacott

the ‘Nordwand’ or the ‘Eigerwand’ belongs as much to the watching public as it does to the individual climber

Victorian intellectuals climbed in search of a new

It's no secret that we love a good skiing or riding story—it's kind of our thing

through his words and photos

• Reverse Weave® cross-grain cut resists shrinkage

Damien Gildea examines impacts of this increasingly widespread technological aid

as individuals transform into crew

Earning Making My Place For a long time

In Search of Lost Summits Growing up in a tenement on the outskirts of Madrid

Tested: Sage Powerline