Travel
Taking the Long Route with Bearpaw Heli-Skiing
Words: Sakeus Bankson. Photos: Colin Wiseman. All it takes to buy a house and multiple acres in Sinclair Mills, BC is $20,000 CDN. That, and an impressive lapel pin collection. There’s not much in the tiny town, located 55 miles...
Crux
Shoulder Season
They’re somewhere behind the mountain bikes. Or it could be the lawnmower and leftover Trex from fixing the deck. Shit. Well, they’re back there somewhere. Twenty minutes later I find them next to the badminton net, covered in deflated crocodile...
Straight Line
Useless and Essential
ABOVE Rising over 6,000 feet, Roan Mountain is covered with a network of trails, including the Roan High Knob Shelter, which—during snowy winters—provides a taste of the backcountry hut experience for southerners. The email came in August a few years...
Photo Essay
All The Wild Things
View Photo Essay Evan Stevens and Jasmin Caton found the elk the next morning on the snow cat access road. Or at least what was left of it. The wolves had done a thorough job. But you have to expect...
Interview
Leo Taillefer
The wood walls of Leo Taillefer’s small cabin gave off a honey glow in the Val D’Isere sun, as I wrapped up my interview with the long-black-haired skier. “Anything else you’d like to add?” I ask. Leo’s brother, who had...
Event
TGR “Tight Loose” Premiere
When Micah Black, one of the biggest skiing icons of the late 1990s and early 2000s, gives you golf advice, you listen. “You’ll know it’s right if it feels wrong.” It’s probably good advice, but unfortunately it comes too late....
Photo Essay
Chugach Visions
View Photo Essay “We’re gonna ski this thing T-to-B,” Dean Cummings said. By “this thing” he meant a 2,000-plus vertical foot ramp in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, AK. By “T-to-B” he meant top-to-bottom, no stopping. When Dean speaks, you...
Locale
The Fourth Dimension
Physicists have proven our universe exists in four dimensions, but there are certain places where you can glimpse—just for a moment—one dimension beyond that realm. For some, it’s the depths of a painting, for others a guitar solo. For decades,...