Backcountry ski touring has become my favorite of all the different types of skiing but it wasn’t always this way. I discovered there are lots of things to learn before you go ski touring for ...

Ski mountaineering is effectively the most extreme version of backcountry ski touring that involves skills beyond the basics of ski touring to travel through terrain. Picture this: you're headed ...

Backcountry skis, also called touring skis, aren’t designed for a convenient lift ride to the top of the mountain. They instead balance lightweight materials for walking uphill with jam-packed ...

so we tested it with mountain guides on a day of backcountry ski touring in the Wasatch. Recently, I heard rumors that OnX Backcountry was adding an ATES overlay to its digital mapping program. For ...

In the decade since I last embarked on a heli-assisted backcountry ski touring adventure in B.C.’s rugged Kootenay Rockies, I'd lost some of my edge (and knee cartilage), and during the weeks ...

While this allows a larger company with a free-heel background like Scarpa to continue taking the plunge into telemark, no ...

I tend to ski most of the season with a 30-liter airbag pack (ski touring and skiing resort-access backcountry), but switch to lighter-weight and slightly larger ski mountaineering pack when ...

Anything from skiing out a gate at a resort for a quick backcountry lap to a short ski tour for some low-angle pow turns an all-day mission for a specific line can constitute backcountry skiing. But ...