Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print

Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 PrintOn the cover: On a near zero degree morning in late March in Crested Butte, Colorado, Xavier Fane captured this unknown skier on Mike's Mile, one of the Nordic center's most remote trails with Mt. Crested Butte behind. "To me," Fane says, "it denotes the peacefulness of a cold, calm spring morning during the time when COVID was just getting going." [Photo] Xavier Fane FEATURES The Fastest Race on Cross Country Skis Almost from the time the sprint made

John Burcham and Andrew Frost pursue its fleeting compositions of space

MOUNTAIN ACCOUNT: TINCAN TUMBLE

while in the middle of a crosswalk in Anchorage

Spooky and Sinister

Yet despite the storms and bitter cold

As we toured and tested the various layers that landed in this issue

Mountain Profile: Slesse Three kilometers north of the border between Washington and British Columbia

The rise of the U

power and humor

And the Tetons

and how the backcountry has forever changed this not-so-endangered species

Off Belay Jeremy Collins draws