Mountaineering
Citizen scientists measuring snow in places scientists can’t
By Elizabeth Kimberly
With the onset of spring in the Cascades, the mountain snowpack begins its annual phase change: dense snow becomes cold, flowing water...
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,...
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...
Graphite, Granite & Gravel: Art and pedaling around the west
Story, art and photos by Gretchen Leggitt
I recall the exact moment, swimming in a sea of merriment at Aslan Brewing’s one-year anniversary party, when my...
Wanna Party? A hut trip on British Columbia’s Bow-Yoho Traverse
Story and photos by Jason Griffith
We’d been slogging for hours out of the Little Yoho Valley after finding the Stanley Mitchell Hut full. Darkness...
Meal Prep and Pocket Bacon: Eat well in the backcountry this...
By Mike McCartan
The smoke near Winthrop was unbearable and the fire rained ash on our vehicles overnight; we swept it off the windshield just...
Crevasses and Angry Dogs: A bicycle-powered Mt. Baker ski descent
Story and photos by Peter Lillesve
Dogs chased me down the dark highway – fast ones, loud ones, all unleashed and unfenced. Of the many...
Parting Shot: Jason Hummel’s glacier project
To me, the unknown is uncovering for yourself what’s new and exciting. It’s both walking in the footprints of others and creating your own...
Seven days of alpine adventure through the heart of the North...
Story and photos by Jason Griffith
It’s hard to find a place in the lower 48 as wild as the tangled valleys at the head...
