I’ve turned a number of Atomic skis into touring setups despite them not being backcountry-specific skis, so it’s not surprising that their flagship touring skis, the Backland 109s shine as a ...

Because we all have different backcountry agendas, we've included 2024's best backcountry boot options in both the hybrid and alpine touring categories.

“Backcountry skiing takes a lot of forms, everything from adventurous mountaineering to simple touring around woods,” said John Weir, marketing manager at Bent Gate Mountaineering in Golden.

I discovered there are lots of things to learn before you go ski touring for the first time. Based on my experiences, here are 17 things I wish I’d known before I started.

He attributes the interest in backcountry touring to improved equipment that is allowing people to go beyond the confines of the ski resort, and that lure of backcountry adventure is hard to pass up.

Jeep is limiting the 2025 Wrangler 4xe Backcountry to 5,800 units, with prices starting at $66,185 (including a $1,895 destination charge).

With eye-watering lift pass costs and endless queues at even the smallest resorts, it's easy to appreciate the allure of backcountry ski touring and splitboarding. Under your own power, you can ...

A brand long synonymous with high-performance backcountry ski touring bindings, Dynafit drops three brand-new pin bindings for 2025. Since Dynafit’s original patent on tech bindings expired in 2014, ...

The different styles of skiing we think of when we’re talking about backcountry touring are: freeride, ski touring, ski mountaineering, or race. For freeride, there are usually boots that fit into a ...

Other backcountry skiers are in it for untracked powder--they head out of the resort's backcountry gates to ski and skin lap after lap of pristine snow just beyond the resort boundaries. Hybrid ...