Backcountry Magazine 155 | The 2024 Photo Annual Prints & Posters

Backcountry Magazine 155 | The 2024 Photo Annual Prints & PostersOn the Cover: Its not often you see long dreads flowing from a ski helmet. Meet San Juan Expeditions guide and longtime splitboarder Kam Weakley, shown here letting his hair down in Colorados San Juan Mountains. Throughout my career in the mountains I have become aware that there are not too many people recreating in the outdoors that look like me, let alone working in the mountains professionally, Weakley says in his guide bio. I am proud of who I am

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Contributors Climbing Life

Crustcountry

Alaska’s Chugach Range is widely known for heli drops and endless spines

And the tin mining town's rags-to-riches story adds another dimension to this island nation's charm and appeal

69 tells the stories of the people

New Englander Michael Wejchert searches out a new route

Dreams of skiing New Hampshire's Tuckerman Ravine

Bluebird Backcountry

Senior editor John Dostal ponders is this skiing

David Roberts visits the menhirs of France to try to understand why climbers—and people in general—are drawn to stone as they search to connect with "something

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