Backcountry Magazine 165 | The 2026 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)

Backcountry Magazine 165 | The 2026 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF)On the Cover: By August, our art director, Mike Lorenz, had compiled 50 cover options for the coming volume of Backcountryexplosive pow shots, wild lines, jaw dropping backdrops, knife edge bootpacksall eye capturing and with the symmetry and space needed to accommodate cover lines. Often, we ruminate on several possibilities for each issue. Other times, like with this years Photo Annual, our eyes and hearts are collectively drawn to one photo thats

Renan Ozturk and Rachel Pohl

How and where to use an ice axe

But in 1970s Yosemite

A collaboration between Mountain Flyer and artist Jonathan S

Publish Date: October 2018

a quiet valley in Italy’s northern Piemonte region cracks the code of crowd control

adventurers

Community support and local avalanche educators fostered that evolution by giving the boys space to grieve and education to return to the hills safely

in his own life and in the future of this earth

• Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton

to welcome a vaccine

look for outside investment or shut down