Backcountry ski touring has become my favorite of all the different types of skiing but it wasn't always this way. I discovered there are lots of things to learn before you go ski touring for the ...

Canada is home to some of the most sought-after ski touring and splitboard terrain in the world. From the classic, coastal, big mountain skiing found on Duffey Lake Road, to the easily-accessible, ...

For the uninitiated, ski touring can mean everything from cross-country skiing to ski mountaineering. But authentic ski touring, or “ski randonnee” as the French call it, is simply hiking uphill on ...

On this Friday morning in December, on a boulevard-style blue run at the Deux-Alpes ski area in southeastern France, several small groups are skiing uphill. Like salmon swimming upstream, they climb ...

Ski mountaineering goes beyond traditional ski touring. It’s a demanding contest with the mountain, the weather and one’s own limits. Anyone who has ever climbed through fresh snow on skins knows the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Backcountry skiing means different things to different people. For some it means climbing hundreds of feet up beautiful peaks on pristine slopes in search of ...

It's lunchtime, which means a break in the steady ascent to the soft marshmallow summit at Mefjellet, one of hundreds of peaks in western Norway's Sunnmøre Alps. On the veranda of a lonely ...