Cross Country Skier Spring 2019 Alpinist 56

Cross Country Skier Spring 2019 Alpinist 56Cross Country Skiers Spring 2019 issue, The Cradle, is available now. Inside The Cradle, a selection of essays from frequent contributors explores Scandinavias influence on North American skiing as we know it todayfrom sipping and reviewing aquavit to saving the Baby King, its all covered here. We also visit Skiku, an Alaskan program bringing ski equipment and lessons to some of the states most remote regions, and we head to Stowe, Vermont, the jewel

Words and Images by Eric Mulder

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DEPARTMENT CONTENTS

The world of Nordic skiing photography may not be vast

As a result

My favorite poems here center the tools integral to life on a trail crew—chainsaws cut through bullshit

Effecting Change: Slopes to Singletrack

both real and imagined

our associate editor dreams of pitons

a dead-end valley on the French/Italian border took a different tack

Beyond the 20-page gallery that captures the essence of mountains

Pressure Lift Forty years after Bob Plumb and Dave Stutzman's first ascent of the North Pillar on Devils Thumb (Taalkhunaxhk'u Shaa)