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Photo of the Week: Skiing on the Solstice

With our skiing options rather limited in the northeast, we headed north on June 20th a few years back to research a story about Iceland’s emerging backcountry skiing industry and explore a range of wild mountains towering over the Greenland Sea. Close to midnight on June 21, we shouldered our packs and set off into …

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Photo of the Week: Summer “Skiing”

“Hey, it’s pretty thin, but I think there’s a little snow over this way…” -Brian Follow this LINK to “Like” AdventureSkier.com on Facebook. Thanks!

Submissions Wanted: 7th Annual Backcountry Film Festival

Calling all filmmakers with an eye for human-powered and backcountry adventure… The Winter Wildlands Alliance is seeking your films and shorts for their upcoming 7th Annual Backcountry Film Festival. The deadline is coming up this September. For more details and film submission info, please check out the festival website HERE. Got a film celebrating the …

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Photo of the Week: February Flashback

The cooler temps late this week have led to sightings of light snow at higher elevations, and have had us reflecting on the incredible winter of 2010-11. Here’s an image of Andy Weis – one of the coaches for the Mad River Glen Freeride Team and the new trail director for Fellowship of the Wheel …

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Photo of the Week: From the Vault – 66 Degrees North

It’s that time of year again when the snow is all but gone here in the northeast US/Canada, and memories of past spring skiing adventures in some far off places have us day dreaming. Here’s an image Emily captured at midnight on May 30th a few years back…on the far reaches of Iceland’s wild West …

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