Snow Savvy

by Rob Coppolillo January 7, 2011

Welcome to Elevation Outdoors’ rundown of the latest in snow safety to help you stay safe when you play the backcountry game. It was the only time in my life, as I skied onto the slope, I felt reasonably sure there would be an avalanche. We’d talked about it at length and if it went—which [...]

Peruvian Gold

by Doug January 7, 2011

Mountain biking in the Cordillera Blanca Diesel exhaust blasts us as we push our guides’ Toyota van through deep loose dirt on a gold mining road high in a remote area of the Cordillera Blanca near Huaraz, Peru. We are late to meet our arriero, a burro driver who has walked two days with his [...]

Global Tread

by Elevation Staff January 7, 2011

Don’t want to miss a run while traveling? With running-vacations.com, you don’t have to. Endurance coach Terry Chiplin, who has been holding running retreats at his Estes Park mountain lodge for five years, now covers any location around the globe. Whether you’re in London for work or on safari in the Serengeti, Chiplin will craft [...]

Down in the Hole

by Doug January 7, 2011

Of all the backcountry I have skied on the planet, the place I keep wanting to go back to more than anywhere else is Jackson Hole. That’s mostly because the “backcountry” you can access from the resort isn’t really backcountry at all. It’s one mega-resort-sized sliced of easy to access sidecountry–and I’m not afraid to [...]

Pete Swenson

by AJ Johnson January 7, 2011

Colorado’s rando king raves about the thrill of the up-and-down race How did you get started in randonee skiing? I don’t even know. My first race was in Crested Butte, which would have been six or seven years ago. I did the race and enjoyed it and just started doing more and more. Then I [...]

10 months

by Elevation Staff January 7, 2011

Time period that Karen Skillen has given herself to ski as many countries as possible to raise funds and awareness for disabled sports organizations. “It’s amazing how many people don’t know that disabled sports organizations exist, let alone things like adaptive skiing,” she says. Since starting her quest in July, 48-year-old Skillen has skied six [...]