Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Cross Country Skier

Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Cross Country SkierFeatures Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good, the Great, and the Awesome, Peter Croft calls the Palisades "the most mountainous mountains in the Sierra Nevada." Half hidden behind foothills, these spiny 13,000 to 14,000 foot peaks have allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics and wanderers. Doug Robinson follows a "trail of mentors" that leads from the early mountaineers of the Sierra Club, to generations of prolific soloists such as the

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No Buff Too Tough

Nevada's Ruby Mountains Helicopter Experience celebrates its 40th anniversary

Escape Route Long before flashy videos and competitions

meticulously selected to get your brain ready for winter

relevant and progressive backcountry skiing and riding regions in the U

bumper-to-bumper skintracks and poor touring etiquette have one contributor asking: Is the backcountry overcrowded

Full Value In 1970 and 1971

Gearbox: Avalanche Safety Gear

David Rocchio finds a lost mountain culture in Slovakia’s High Tatras

237-foot Mount Sanford

grown from meager mining roots to an encampment for 10th Mountain Division soldiers to a place where skiers tested their limits in the '70s and visitors later brought glitz and wealth