Backcountry Magazine 156 | The Backwoods Issue Print or Digital?:Print IssueOn the Cover: Caite Zeliff fell in love with the freedom of skiing as a kid in New Hampshires White Mountains. Eventually, the sport became her livelihood: first receiving a college ski racing scholarship, then chasing podium purses as a competitive freeride skier and, finally, becoming a sponsored professional athlete. At some point, the joy disappeared, but Zeliff is working to get it back. She says she found some of it on this day, skiing on the
from those far away—like skiing under Norway’s Northern Lights and finding a Haute Route less traveled—to those near home
beyond the low-density flakes and hot springs
The Girl Who Always Wants to Climb Higher Growing up in Afghanistan
JP Auclair
Editors’ Choice Skis & Boots
boots and poles through their paces
is now on its third or fourth or fifth Golden Age
As disparate as those jobs may seem
Light Before Wisdom After a knee injury in 2012
and who changed the National Geographic photog’s perspective on the big picture
But that path has brought vitality to one of ski mountaineering's most atypical characters who
editor in chief Tyler Cohen explores the complete history of telemark and its unassailable link to backcountry skiing
