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BACKCOUNTRY ADVENTURES

REFLECTIONS ON BACKCOUNTRY SKIING FROM CODY TOWNSEND AND IAN PROVO

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REFLECTIONS ON BACKCOUNTRY SKIING FROM CODY TOWNSEND AND IAN PROVO
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REFLECTIONS ON BACKCOUNTRY SKIING FROM CODY TOWNSEND AND IAN PROVO

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In Search of a Patch of Powder: A Ski Mission to Tasmania's Frenchmans Cap

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Goat Chaperones, Butt Scoots, And Technicolor Sunsets in the Gore Range
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Goat Chaperones, Butt Scoots, And Technicolor Sunsets in the Gore Range

Words and Photos by Scott Nechemias  It was mid-July, I was standing a little above 12,000 feet in the Gore Range, staring at the descent from a pass my brain had already unhelpfully started referr...
For Its Own Sake: Camping as an End and Not a Means
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For Its Own Sake: Camping as an End and Not a Means

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Words & Photos by David Plante I’ve been fortunate to have paddled many rivers in the Canadian North over the past three decades using hardshell canoes, folding canoes, oar rafts, SOAR boats, a...
The Full Bull
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Words & Photos by John Baker Several years ago, I stumbled across a trip report of this place, and it sounded like one of the most awful yet amazing missions I had ever heard of. I read a few m...
Nothing Missing
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Nothing Missing

Plans put on hold. Frenzied weekends or meticulously stacked PTO hours all idling but raring to jump into action. WE NEED ACTION! "How is that these other adventure peers are out there getting afte...
To the Arrigetch We Must Go
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Words, Photos & Video by Eric Bernhoft   Gates of the Arctic National Park is one of the most difficult places to reach that I’ve traveled to. To even glimpse the majesty of the Brooks Rang...
What is the Expiration Date of Adventure?
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Words & Photos by Brett Davis It seems like in this modern age that everything has an expiration date, and that those dates are getting shorter and shorter and shorter. It used to be, so I am t...

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