Backcountry Magazine 140 - The 2022 Gear Guide Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Backcountry Magazine 140 - The 2022 Gear Guide Print or Digital?:Print IssueOn the Cover: An April storm cycle shutting down all of Whistler Blackcomb's lifts prompted photographer Guy Fattal to escape into B. C.'s Tantalus Range with skier Chad Sayers. On a gray day that Fattal calls the "sleeper day of the decade," the pair ventured high into the range to find almost two feet of champagne powder above the clouds. Says Fattal, "This day was exactly what us skiers dream of all year, and I sure am glad that I got out of bed

a captured moment in time

Jen See jumps inside the imagination of your two- wheeled steed and gives us a cheeky take

never played by the rules and the bike industry is better off because of it

Splitboarding is transitioning from niche to mainstream— that's a good thing and that's what 30 testers found last March at Crested Butte

Words by Hans Rey

On the cover: "Not a breath of wind in the air

Jörn Heller and Robert Jasper sailed to Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia to climb a mountain with three names

only to tear them apart a mere 178 days into their relationship

visit these far flung villages and teach children the art of Nordic skiing

Harper's grand-niece

After years of mapping the region

A trip to the Spanish Pyrenees delivers faceshots