Backcountry Magazine November 2010 - Travel Issue Book

Backcountry Magazine November 2010 - Travel Issue BookFeatures: Lessons of the Alps: Two American receive an education in the Swiss backcountry Smoke and Rails: Rebirth of the Ski Train Gear: 2010 11 Travel and Camping Gear How to: Learn to cope with four common types of instability Plus: B. C. Government fund bc skiing New Avy Danger Scale The Lost Range of Antarctic Mountains After controversy dissolves, Jay Pistono reeducates Teton Pass users Old Tracks Offer Fresh Snow: Riding NHs Cog Railway

In the lab with cover girl Carolyn Stwertka

Departments

Feeling the Bern

HEARTH: 5040 PEAK HUT

while Derek Franz searches for words among the rocks

In the East Vail

Wired In 2003

Kyle Dempster and Bruce Normand followed their path through mist and avalanches to finish a dangerous route they believe no one should climb again

To Abandon Gwen Moffat

eleven climbers died on the world's second-highest peak

BIFF AMERICA: CORRUPTING MINDS

Pros and their coaches share advice for the sport's up-and-comers