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Q&A: Grant Gunderson on his photography career, safety in the backcountry,...
For more than 15 years, Bellingham-based photographer Grant Gunderson has shot for ski publications around the world and exposed skiers to destinations ranging from...
Avalanche Skills Guide: Identifying the mental traps that lead to most...
Story by Jason D. Martin
You’ve skied this slope a hundred times and nothing’s ever happened before.
The line isn’t what you thought, but,...
ADVENTURES
Close Call in the Canadian Rockies
The Stanley Mitchell Hut is the gem of the Alpine Club of Canada’s hut system. But dangers lurk in a complicated and unfamiliar snowpack.
Story...
Following Footsteps: Climbing Rainier in gear from a famous 1963 expedition
By Andrew Waite
About halfway across the Cowlitz Glacier, one of my crampons fell off for the first time.
It loosened again on Cathedral Gap and...
CULTURE
Book Excerpt: David Guterson’s “Turn Around Time”
David Guterson, famous for his best-selling 1994 novel “Snow Falling on Cedars,” has always been drawn to mountains. Guterson, 63, has channeled that passion...
Winter recipes for physical and mental health
By Jacqueline Thompson
Autumn has come and gone, along with the season’s plentiful harvest. As the deep chill of winter sets into the bones of...
TRAILS
B.C. prohibits logging, but not mining, in Skagit River headwaters
By Oliver Lazenby
More than a year after clearcut logging in a remote area outside E.C. Manning Provincial Park in B.C. drew attention from leaders...
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WSDOT closing 542 east of Glacier for avalanche risk
The Washington State Department of Transportation will close Highway 542 at milepost 37 east of Glacier at 4 a.m. on Thursday, January 23, as...
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