Backcountry Magazine 155 | The 2024 Photo Annual hoodies

Backcountry Magazine 155 | The 2024 Photo Annual hoodiesOn the Cover: Its not often you see long dreads flowing from a ski helmet. Meet San Juan Expeditions guide and longtime splitboarder Kam Weakley, shown here letting his hair down in Colorados San Juan Mountains. Throughout my career in the mountains I have become aware that there are not too many people recreating in the outdoors that look like me, let alone working in the mountains professionally, Weakley says in his guide bio. I am proud of who I am

As a result

ALL HE NEEDS IS THE CAPE

Nick Bullock 98 - Off Belay A tribute to Zorka Prachtelova Vladimir "Chroust" Prochazka

after four years of closures and land disputes

a figure-eight loop that's 25 miles across if you place a ruler on the map

EDITOR'S NOTE: INTO THE WOODS

for the weird

Jeff Lowe and George Lowe

BACKYARD SKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

famed British mountaineer Nick Bullock left for his twenty-fourth expedition: a journey to attempt a new route on Minya Konka

below Crested Butte’s Paradise Divide

where some of the refugees from the Russian invasion have fled