Backcountry Magazine 121 - The Spring Issue Book

Backcountry Magazine 121 - The Spring Issue BookFEATURES THE GREAT BARDINI Allan Bard wasn't just one of the most highly regarded mountain guides of the 1970s and '80s. According to Tom Carter, Bard's longtime friend and colleague in guiding California's Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, "Allan was a world class zealot, an upbeat and hilarious vaudevillian cornball poet." And while Bard suffered an untimely death 20 years ago, his writings and musings live on in these pages. THE GATEKEEPER Unlike

Off Belay The irrepressible Tami Knight presents: Cerro Torre

• 80% acrylic

The avalanche airbag industry blows up

and discovering that people have more in common with bears than he thought

while Katherine Indermaur celebrates the spirit of vulnerability at the heart of Indian Creek in southeastern Utah

Charlotte Austin climbs without metaphor

150 miles of singletrack

mountaineering disappeared from the country for more than two decades

Professional skier Colter Hinchliffe reflects on a day of powsurfing gone wrong

four boot liners that offer a customized fit and a new breed of sunglasses that goes big for the climb and descent

cowboy poets

predictably bad weather and one big shark fin ridge