When you envision Colorado ski-mountaineering you likely picture something resembling Rocky Mountain National Park. For good reason as it’s wild and picturesque. Mark Kelly’s guidebook is the ultimate compass that unlocks the secrets of the park and inspires long days in the backcountry. Feast your eyes on some of the most awe-inspiring terrain on the planet. Grab a tank of gas, so..
$25.95
The title of this book might as well be “Some of North America’s Most Iconic Ski Descents.” Overflowing with high quality photos, hi-res topo maps, and a whopping 250+ descents, Classic Colorado Ski Descents is the guiding compass for skiers looking to explore Colorado. Whether that’s your home state or your looking to explore the West, this book offers an exciting to-do list. Writ..
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I don’t always go skiing in California, but if I did I would trust Jeremy Benson to tell me where to go. As a sponsored backcountry skier and avid outdoor enthusiast/author he knows the state better than I know my back yard. Whether you are a backcountry amateur or an experienced veteran, this book has it all with 99 routes to serve any craving...
$21.95
While the Sierra Nevada has long been known to climbers and hikers as the Range of Light, for backcountry ski enthusiasts it might be better termed the Range of Corn. Home to a staggering variety of daylong tours, ski mountaineering objectives, and complex traverses, the Eastern Sierra transforms in spring into a glisse playground of peaks, passes and valleys. With so much to choos..
$38.95
It's no surprise that when Christopher Van Tilburg, MD, decided to write a book about skiing in his home state he went above and beyond to create his finest work yet. With 95 highly detailed, skied (and boarded, if you're into that), and researched routes extending throughout Oregon, Southern Washington, and Northern California, this book is sure to give you enough terrain options ..
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Martin Volken, is an IFMGA certified mountain guide and AMGA skimo program examiner from Switzerland, so high altitude snow sports pretty much flow through his blood. Because of his oxygen-rich Swiss mountain blood, it was an eventuality that he would write the comprehensive backcountry guide for his current home state of Washington. Martin expertly breaks down 80 different routes ..
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Montana is called 'Big Sky Country' for its vast expanses, beautiful vistas, and abundance of mountains. Add snow to those peaks and you can find some of the best ski lines in the west. So many, in fact, that it's hard to know where to start. Thankfully a copy of "Peaks and Couloirs of Southwest Montana" will point you in the right direction. What could easily be described as a tru..
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Christopher Kussmaul is a devoted backcountry skier and the author of Peaks and Couloirs, one of Montana’s only modern ski guides which offers an in-depth look at the big mountain skiing within the five ranges surrounding Bozeman, Montana. Outside of the Northern Rockies, his love for the sport has taken him to Pakistan, Nepal, Alaska, and Canada in pursuit of bushwhacks, big verti..
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The Western United States seems to get all the attention within the skiing community but maybe that’s just because New Englanders like it that way to keep the yokels away. Best Backcountry Skiing in the Northeast is the guide book for ski touring of all kinds in the Northeast. Whether you free your heel or keep it locked, prefer skins or fish-scales, enjoy plastic or metal edges, t..
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While often overlooked, New England boasts access to incredible mountainscapes, such as the Presidential Range, that provide awesome access to backcountry skiing. With Presidential Skiing, Kurt Niiler comprehensively details skiing in these kingly mountains, providing insider knowledge that only a local would know. In the book, you will find route knowledge, aerial photography, app..
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The Spearhead Backcountry Atlas is a comprehensive photographic guide to the Whistler Blackcomb backcountry. This breathtaking area offers access to day trips and epic multi-day traverses alike. This atlas covers all of the Spearhead's terrain in exquisite detail using maps, images, and detailed route descriptions. If you are heading into the Whistler Blackcomb backcountry, the Spe..
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On-the-spot decision-making with lightweight, compact, and durable guidebooks! Beacon Guidebooks is offering up easy-to-digest beta on backcountry terrain in multiple regions across the West. In these highly-curated guides by local experts, you’ll find high-quality aerial photos marked with ascent and descent indicators, individual run descriptions, slope angles, aspect, Avalanche ..
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With its stunning photography, in-depth photos, and detailed information, the Ski Atlas(s) from Alpenglow Publishing are equal parts coffee table adornment and functional guidebook. With an individual and singular focus on Lassen & Shasta, Tahoe, Trinity Alps, Southern Wallowas, Steven's Pass, and Oregon, you can get beta on your next ski line AND get inspired at the same time...
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After your beacon, shovel, probe, skis, skins, boots, first aid kit, pants, and Skimo Co headband, a trustworthy map is the most important piece of equipment to bring with you into the backcountry. But don't trust just any map to get you to where you want to ski - if you're headed to the Lake Tahoe area or the snowcapped mountains of New Hampshire, pick up one of the Backcountry Sk..
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Whether venturing into the backcountry or just looking for some inspirational wall adornment, the Ski Maps from Beacon Guidebooks are the perfect accompaniment to their similarly named Ski Atlas siblings. These useful maps contain information on parking, descents, skin tracks, slope angles, and much more. Because these are meant to be used in the field, they are constructed from wa..
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Want to know where today's ski tour took you and what lines were skied? The Wasatch Backcountry Map with Legend is a detailed, high-resolution map that makes finding most backcountry ski lines in the Central Wasatch a breeze. Made by a local Salt Lake City artist to display anywhere, from framed in your living room, taped next to your workbench, or stapled to your bedroom ceiling. ..
$165.00
The best skiing map of the Wasatch mountains. Virtually all the named chutes, bowls, peaks, and fun. Printed on waterproof paper.
All proceeds from the sale of this map are donated to the Utah Avalanche Center.
Update 2023: Fifth edition of this map with more precise contour lines and slope shading, plus new lines that were skied onto the map...
$15.95
If you like skiing or mountaineering and you like books that also have to do with skiing and mountaineering, this should be on your must-read list. Packed with photos, detailed instruction, and diagrams, this book will help you understand everything about everything that has to do with skiing in the backcountry. Written by Pacific Northwest guide Martin Volken along with Scott Sche..
$32.95
Molly Absolon has done just about everything that's cool in life. She’s one of those people you aspire to be when you grow up. Luckily for us, she wasn’t just enjoying the outdoors for herself: she is an avid environmental educator, a retired NOLS instructor, and author. Basic Illustrated Alpine Ski Touring covers all the ski touring basics and can be an excellent refresher for vet..
$16.95
The learning curve for ski touring is forever pointed upwards, even after you've mastered kickturns and reading the avalanche bulletin. So if you could attend an advanced ski mountaineering course with the top professionals in the industry for less than $35, you'd be crazy not to! Well, here's your chance. Rob Coppolillo's "The Ski Guide Manual" covers advanced critical concepts su..
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Combining a cute storyline, illustrations, ecological terms, and avalanche safety, everyone has something to glean from Sqeak! Goes Backcountry Skiing. Your kids get a fun story about Sqeak pushing her boundaries and comfort zone as she is accidentally swept up into a new adventure. For adults, you get to refresh and reinforce avalanche terms and acronyms that will prove useful in ..
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It's never too early to start learning about snow safety! The Avalanche Dragons by Erin C. McCrea is a fun children's book that follows Goat and Moose through a day of backcountry skiing, avalanche avoidance, and a close call. With beautiful illustrations and an easy-to-follow storyline, this book will help your little ones begin thinking about how to stay safe when exploring out o..
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Ski lover? Perfect. History nerd? Excellent! Throw on your best flannel and spend your apres-ski with "Written in the Snows." Written by epic historian Lowell Skoog, you will explore over a century of ski culture in the Northwest, culminating in today's increasing love for sliding on snow. Early ski resorts are the backbone on which the ski industry was built and Skoog dives into t..
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With a storied career of alpinism and big mountain riding, Jeremy Jones lays claim to a body of work that few can hope to surpass. With the Art of Schralpanism, Jeremy provides an experiential take on the mountains that can only be gleaned by first descents in the Himalayas, close calls, and shared days with friends in challenging conditions. Combining his passion for art, poetry, ..
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As an accomplished skier, climber, author, and founder of Wild Snow, Lou Dawson has led an exemplary life that is anything but ordinary. In Avalanche Dreams, Lou details his transition from a teenager exploring Colorado's iconic peaks, finding meaning in the isolated world of extreme sports, to later finding joy and contentment as a father and family man. With his elegant and natur..
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With many years spent as an IFMGA guide in some of the harshest environments, Joe Stock has a thing or two (or three) to share about avalanches, snowpack discussion, and useful strategies for traveling through avalanche terrain. With the Avalanche Factor, Joe shares many lessons that can only be learned through years of experience and presents a logical and easy-to-understand syste..
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Avalanche Essentials, a snow safety guide written by Bruce Temper, breaks down the technical science of avalanches in concise and easy to understand terms without watering down the technical aspects. Supplement or refresh your avy training with this book...
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This detailed safety guide, written by the former Director of the Utah Avalanche Center, Bruce Tremper, is a must for anyone that spends time out-of-bounds. Complete with a staggering 180 photos and diagrams, this book is not a replacement for an Avy Safety Course, but should be used by everyone to supplement their knowledge of safe travel in dangerous terrain.
This revised and ..
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The Avalanche Pocket Guide is a fold-out field reference pamphlet that's been nicely laminated and has a fancy built in inclinometer. A perfect gift for anyone that spends time outside in the winter...
$8.95
Local avalanche classes full? Gathering with strangers during a pandemic sound like a bad idea? Not much of a textbook reader?
Lucky for you, our friend, badass (ski) mountaineer, and IFMGA guide, Mark Smiley, has put together an online course that serves as a comprehensive guide to avalanche safety. The course is applicable to all skiers - whether it's your first season in the ..
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Mark Smiley is an IFMGA Certified Mountain Guide who has completed impressive climbing and skiing expeditions all over the world. Most known for his (and his wife Janelle's) attempt at ticking all of the 50 Classic Climbs of North America, Mark is now a proud father who is modernizing the practice of guiding with electronic instructional courses he calls MtnSense. Now he is applyin..
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Ever wondered why Utah brags about such great snow? Is it really because of lake effect? Or perhaps you know that a lingering northwest flow combined with orographic lift is a good thing for Little Cottonwood Canyon, but can’t actually explain what that means. Thankfully for us, renowned meteorologist Jim Steenburgh took the time to answer these questions and many more in “Secrets ..
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Referred to by many as "The Bible of Mountaineering," this all-time bestselling guide written by over 40 climbing instructors is the preferred reference when you can't ask Siri how to properly self-arrest on a glacier.
Update 2024/25: Now in its 10th edition!..
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Andy Tyson is a seasoned NOLS Instructor, guide for Alpine Ascents International, and a veteran Exum Mountain Guide. Needless to say, Andy has years of high mountain experience. Mike Clelland is a NOLS instructor and the life-breath of this wonderful book. The two of them got together to write Glacier Mountaineering which is an intelligent guide to safe-travel on glaciers with a un..
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Glacier travel can be a very fun and rewarding way to spend your time. However, glacier travel and a lack of education should never go hand in hand. Not designed to be a replacement for any safety courses, but instead a supplement for your knowledge, this book is a wonderful refresher for any questions you may have about getting something out of the deep end of the crevasse...
$19.95
Don't head to the glacier without it. The Crevasse Rescue Pocket Guide is something all climbers, hikers, mountaineers, mountain goats, skiers, and anyone that travels on snow should have memorized...
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The complete guide to the construction, placement, and anatomy of a climbing anchor. Loaded with pictures and diagrams of good examples, bad examples, neat tricks, and all sorts of info to make you an expert on climbing anchors. Just add experience!
Update 2019/20: 2nd Edition
- Terminology distinction between "anchor" and "placement" or "piece"
- Comparision Lists
- C..
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A handy reference, the Outdoor Knots Book clearly explains every useful knot for backcountry skiing, mountaineering, camping and more. While not a complete bible for knot-nerds, it has easy-to-follow descriptions of the knots you’ll appreciate. With bonus coiling techniques, maintenance tips, and knot characteristics, this book will help you master vertical sports and lounging in a..
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"The Ultimate Guide to Lightweight Winter Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking"
In 2014, Justin Lichter and Shawn Forry set out to be the first hikers to navigate the full length of the Pacific Crest Trail in the winter. Taking four and a half months, the two men walked, skied, and snowshoed for 2,650 miles from British Columbia to the US-Mexico Border. The two men are regarded as e..
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When you leave your car at the trailhead and head up into the mountains, being prepared for accidents is as important as bringing water and enough layers. Minor injuries like a broken finger or sprained ankle can quickly grow serious when you're far from the car and out of cell service, and more serious injuries or illnesses are only a slip on a rock or sip of bad water away...
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The life of Doug Coombs, the legendary steep-skiing pioneer, is told through the eyes of Robert Cocuzzo in this epic biography. Complete with words like fall line, beacon, Napoleon complex, and a breakdown of avalanche science, this book is sure to intrigue anyone interested in learning about the life of one of the greats...
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Whether you are skiing in one of the many couloirs flanked by sheer granite cliffs in Little Cottonwood Canyon or finding solitude in one of the many aspen groves of Big Cottonwood Canyon, one thing is certain; the Wasatch mountains are a special place for many. Celebrating this treasured place, the Utah Lines Wasatch Ski Peaks blank note cards are the perfect way to send a note or..
$25.95
While exploring nature’s mighty splendors, it’s easy to venture out of shouting distance or lose sight of your partners. Backcountry Access solves the problem with the BC Link 2.0 radio. Compatible with any pack with shoulder straps, the BC Link 2.0 has a six-mile usable range and thanks to the upgraded wattage, this upgraded version will reach up to 40 miles if the need arises. Bo..
$189.95
Did your backcountry partner disappear around the bend in the couloir you're about to ski, and you're wondering if it's clear to drop in? Did a large foggy cloud just obscure your line of sight to the bottom where they're waiting? Have something you forgot to tell them? Solve these situations and more with the Rocky Talkie Mountain Radio, allowing communication in all sorts of terr..
$109.95
Gear up for unparalleled communication prowess with the Rocky Talkie 5 Watt Radio, the essential companion for your next backcountry adventure! Engineered to conquer rugged terrains and amplify your outdoor expeditions, this mighty handheld radio ensures seamless connectivity amidst the untamed beauty of nature. Featuring a powerful 5-watt output, the Rocky Talkie delivers crystal-..
$179.95
Accessorize your Rocky Talkie Mountain Radio with a convenient at-the-ready microphone, speaker, and push-to-talk (PTT) button. This little gizmo is fully waterproof, so you can keep your radio nicely stashed away and still be able to communicate effectively. Turn on your radio, strap the hand mic to your shoulder, and go!
IP67 waterproof rating withstands being submerged und..
$47.95
The only thing better than a Rocky Talkie 5 Watt Radio is a Rocky Talkie 5 Watt Radio with a spiffy and convenient hand mic. With a remote microphone, speaker, push-to-talk (PTT) button, volume control, and A/B dual channel toggle, all the critical functionalities of your radio are available to you right at your shoulder. The mic is compact, waterproof, glove-friendly, and sure to ..
$64.95
The Attivo ski bag will almost surely fit your skis. Ski Trab made it adjustable for different ski sizes, so you don’t have any sad empty-sack. Using a unique set of spiral zippers, the bag can be 171, 186, or 205cm long. It has a nice shoulder strap for easy toting through an airport, and an end-strap for hanging or dragging (dragging not recommended). The Attivo is built with dur..
$79.95
