Other Snow Adventures

By Ian Haupt Cascade Mountain Ascents (CMA) is a new-ish, worker-owned mountain guiding collective based in Bellingham. All previous workers of multiple guiding companies, Mike Elges,...

Hummel finishes The Circumnavigation Project on Mt. Baker Story and photos by Jason Hummel The knowledge of a mountain, the true understanding of where it is...

When El Niño and La Niña get thrown around, it can be hard to keep track of which means more snow. As if all...

Teton Gravity Research (TGR) is taking its newest ski and snowboard film around the world and making a stop in Bellingham at the Mount...

By Luca Williams As the snow falls, Elijah, or Eli, trudges up the hill with his skis, alongside the other first chair fanatics. It’s still...

Blueberry-muffin sweetness of small, local ski areas By Eric Lucas “You look familiar,” I tell the Loup Loup lifty. “Did you have lunch in the lodge?” He’s...

Story and photos by Lisa Pulsifer Something magical happens once winter arrives in the mountains. The hard angles of the rocks disappear under a thick...

By Ian Haupt The Mt. Baker area will have its own snowmobile-specific education outfit this season. Elevated Backcountry offers beginner to advanced-level sled riders avalanche...

Story by Elizabeth Kimberly Your vantage is different from the sky. With wings, you can kiss volcanic summits and lenticular clouds in a matter of...

Review by Meg Olson The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains Jeremy Jones Mountaineers Books In “The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mounatins,” legendary snowboarder and...