Back-Country Basics
February, 1987
Call it designer adventure. The only limits to back-country skiing are conditioning and common sense. How well can you fend for yourself in the great beyond, especially when the great beyond is as cold at night as it was 20,000,000 years age? We recommended that you head into the high country with an experienced partner---or, better yet, a professional guide. Several outfits offer hut-to-hut or the even more exotic yurt-to-yurt skiing. (A yurt is an igloolike tent.) Some of our favorite routes:...
