Backcountry Magazine 143 - The Perspectives Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)

Backcountry Magazine 143 - The Perspectives Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)On the Cover: Not long after Nick Russell started riding in the backcountry, he became disheartened by filmmakers' creativity killing insistence on repeatedly attempting tricks on terrain features. He left that style of riding behind, seeking out big lines and remote peaks instead, but as he shows on this lip near Lake Tahoe, he's still down for a good slash on a good feature. [Photo] Andrew Miller THE PERSPECTIVES ISSUE DELAYED GRATIFICATION While

“A book about beauty

The Climbing Life Jerry Auld bets with ravens

Matt Samet learns the dark realities behind the catchphrase "the point of no return

hoping to find acceptance in the local climbing community—only to come to a different understanding of what true belonging might mean

Mary McIntyre reflects on what it means to be relevant

Ralf Gantzhorn Scared In the aftermath of this year's accidents

our editor-in-chief goes on a pilgrimage to an alpine basin left off most maps

Claudia Jackson came to biking through community organizing—in the form of founding the Tour de SiiHasin

Inside Sugarloaf

Bev Boynton

The Great Northern Issue is a journey to North America’s higher latitudes

Words and photos by Eric Mulder