Alpinist Magazine Issue 36 - Autumn 2011 Backcountry Gear Guide

Alpinist Magazine Issue 36 - Autumn 2011 Backcountry Gear GuideFeatures Crag Profile: Hyalite Canyon In the early 1970s, a college professor and a band of scruffy youths stumbled upon one of the largest collections of icefalls in North America. But the dense trees, deep snowdrifts and complex landscape of Montana's Hyalite Canyon would reveal its secrets slowlyand only to those willing to wander. Joe Josephson narrates forty one years of ongoing quests, while Pat Callis, Doug McCarty, Jennifer Lowe Anker, Jack

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looks between the lines of books and articles

Local Hero At seventy-three

Contributors from across the U

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Devon O’Neil ponders nature versus nurture while skiing with Canada’s most-prolific big mountain skier

all wrapped into an opportunity to ski in a place that these men had served to protect

relatively few African Americans participate in mountaineering and other outdoor sports

we focused our Icons issue on four unique skiers and riders

"What makes a great ski partner

That November

It was an unprecedented prepress screw up—even for us