Teton Mountain Guide Holly Mackin always seems to have the right gear. If you’re a Type B packer like me, there’s a lot to ...

As a backcountry skier, you accept that risk as soon as you leave the trailhead. Go with an experienced guide or group for your first excursion—at the least—so you can gather the knowledge ...

“Avalanche,” said my ski partner, Howie Schwartz, a veteran backcountry guide. “Huge one, back in the ’80s, reached all the way down to the valley.” To his trained eye, the nearly ...

Mountain guide Doug Workman says Turiano’s encyclopedic guidebook helped a generation explore the Teton backcountry. “Teton Skiing connected readers with the pioneers that came before,” says Workman. ...

Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a ...

The guide had been hurled into a tree by the lumbering ... He also leaves behind a void in the backcountry, said Hall, one of the women he helped rescue after their fall in 2011.

“Avalanche,” said my ski partner, Howie Schwartz, a veteran backcountry guide. “Huge one, back in the ’80s, reached all the way down to the valley.” To his trained eye, the nearly ...