Backcountry Magazine 117 - The Steep Issue Gift Card

Backcountry Magazine 117 - The Steep Issue Gift CardFEATURES THE REVIVAL TOUR Just west of the Continental Divide lie Colorado's Elk Mountains, strewn with some of the state's most formidable and photographed 14,000 foot peaks and an endless number just shy of that benchmark. The range's history is intertwined with that of its best known town, Aspen, grown from meager mining roots to an encampment for 10th Mountain Division soldiers to a place where skiers tested their limits in the '70s and visitors

Peter Haan manages to epic twice on the same climb with the same partner

The Mountain of My Fear

Wax Bench Therapy

That's thanks to an expansive cohort of visionaries

Off Belay Tami Knight creates a eld guide to modern climbers

A conservative homeowners' association shut it down in less than two years

Yusuke Sato and Fumitaka Ichimura made the first linkup of the Isis Face and Slovak Direct routes on Denali

traditions and people that have shaped skiing as we know it

who declared that mountaineering should be both "picnic and pilgrimage

Christoph Willumeit and Ralf Gantzhorn make a pilgrimage to the Dolomites

Full Value In July 1973 in the Bugaboos

parking lot and après scene