Backcountry Magazine 121 - The Spring Issue Apparel

Backcountry Magazine 121 - The Spring Issue ApparelFEATURES THE GREAT BARDINI Allan Bard wasn't just one of the most highly regarded mountain guides of the 1970s and '80s. According to Tom Carter, Bard's longtime friend and colleague in guiding California's Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, "Allan was a world class zealot, an upbeat and hilarious vaudevillian cornball poet." And while Bard suffered an untimely death 20 years ago, his writings and musings live on in these pages. THE GATEKEEPER Unlike

Tschiertschen and Lenzerheide

the archipelago of St Kilda was once home to a centuries' old culture whose members scaled steep cliffs to hunt seabirds to support their community

a week after learning that Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson were overdue from a climb in Pakistan

Gets a Tabasco enema

EPIC DESCENTS AND UNSKIED FACES

backcountry and alpine access and it's within minutes of Yellowstone

PROGRESS TO THE PEOPLE

Clear Protective Skin for rugged durability

you’ll find a tribute to Cascades soloist Fay Pullen

" Muscular Thoughts After years of living and composing "at the edge" of crags and high peaks

MORE THAN A MOHAWK

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