Greta Close

Winter Wildlands Alliance 20th annual Backcountry Film Festival will be premiering in Boise, Idaho on Oct. 24, 2024.

Transporting skis and boards to the trailhead or resort and home again is a necessary, but not always straightforward part of the sport. Not every car

Have you ever wondered the CO2 impact of a ski trip? Now there’s a way to find out.

It’s hard to know where to start with a complex skill like crevasse rescue. Rope handling? Reading a glacier? Mechanical advantage? Guide Niels Meyer highlights what’s critical.

Eric Blehm traces the life of snowboarding Icon Craig Kelly, from his first snowboard to the fatal avalanche that killed him.

Legendary skier and mountaineer Kasha Rigby is thought to be the only fatality in the slide at the Ski Center in Brezovica on Tuesday.

This year, Keely’s Camp is offering two backcountry-focused camps and a pair of sponsorship opportunities for ski-focused programs.

Stuff sacks, dry bags and compression bags. Are they really necessary? Increasingly, editor Greta Close doesn’t travel without them.

In the past you’ve had to trade weight for comfort, but these two products prove that’s not the case. This summer, we figured we’d freshen up our gearbox with something more in-season.

Andrzej Bargiel successfully skied Gasherbrum II, the latest objective in his project to ski the world’s highest peaks.

Bluebird Backcountry, the world’s first liftless ski area, announced its permanent closure on Monday, July 10, 2023.

Mt. Shasta is known for more than just its physical beauty. It stands out as an impalpable entity—an energy, a sacredness—that has inspired myths of hidden civilizations, religious movements and more. Rising 10,000 feet above the landscape, Mt. Shasta lies in solitary, captivating grandeur, visible from over 100 miles away. Seen while one drives north on I-5, the robust massif—the Cascade Range’s most voluminous stratovolcano—stretches toward the sky, its 14,179-foot summit rising to the east of…

There are many reasons to become a ski bum. For Greta Close, chasing her ski bum dreams meant following in her father’s skintrack.

Amy Jane David has wanderlust. She’s constantly moving, creating opportunities for herself as a sponsored athlete and budding ski film star while simultaneously helping others learn about the backcountry through her work as a guide and avalanche educator.