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Spring Ski Mountaineering Essential Gear - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Spring Ski Mountaineering Essential Gear

Spring is almost here! In backcountry ski world, that means the snowpack transitions to a more predicable melt/freeze cycle, the weather...
The Ultimate Ski Touring Starter Guide - Cripple Creek Backcountry

The Ultimate Ski Touring Starter Guide

What is ski touring? As long as humans have lived in cold climates, they have looked for ways to move...
How to Size an Alpine Touring Ski - Cripple Creek Backcountry

How to Size an Alpine Touring Ski

The ski touring industry is growing faster and faster. With such growth, gear is increasingly improving in terms of price,...

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Sizing and Choosing the Right Climbing Skin for Alpine Touring - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Sizing and Choosing the Right Climbing Skin for Alpine Touring

Telemark, alpine touring, or splitboarding we all need climbing skins to...
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Choosing the Right Ski Touring Backpack - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Choosing the Right Ski Touring Backpack

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How to Dress for Ski-Touring - Cripple Creek Backcountry

How to Dress for Ski-Touring

A Guide on How to Dress for Backcountry Skiing Whether...
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4 Reasons to go Backcountry Skiing - Cripple Creek Backcountry

4 Reasons to go Backcountry Skiing

With high speed lifts and mega ski-passes the norm, here...
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Does it go? Skiing the Quandary Couloir - Mount Quandary - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Does it go? Skiing the Quandary Couloir - Mount Quandary

"...the couloir both tightened and rolled just below us and...
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Resort Uphill Skiing: Tips for Safe Skinning - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Resort Uphill Skiing: Tips for Safe Skinning

Skinning in bounds might not be as dangerous as Avalanche...
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Making Turns on pico de Orizaba, Mexico - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Making Turns on pico de Orizaba, Mexico

Last Fall, Cripple Creek Ambassador Aidan Goldie set out to...
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Summer Training Tips for Stronger Skiing - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Summer Training Tips for Stronger Skiing

Article by Joe Howdyshell from Summit Endurance Academy “Skiers are...
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The Cross Couloir: Lessons Learned from an Attempted Bike to Ski Mission - Cripple Creek Backcountry

The Cross Couloir: Lessons Learned from an Attempted Bike to Ski Mission

The idea of a bike to ski mission is oh...
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Best Day Ever on Buffalo - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Best Day Ever on Buffalo

Anybody who has had the pleasure of sipping a cold...
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Go Light, Stay Fresh, Ski More - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Go Light, Stay Fresh, Ski More

We've done it backcountry skiers! From the hippy pow meadow...
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Gear Review: Fritschi Tecton Tech Binding - Cripple Creek Backcountry

Gear Review: Fritschi Tecton Tech Binding

Testing Out the Fritschi Tecton Ski Touring Binding Earlier this...
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