Backcountry Magazine Podcast
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Backcountry Magazine Podcast
From legendary athletes to iconic product designers, activists to guides, our world is filled with new views, wisdom, determination and crustiness. This is the Backcountry Podcast.
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42 episoadeDoug Stoup: The Iceman
From playing NCAA soccer to a successful modeling and acting career to being the top polar explorer of his time, Doug Stoup is an enigma. Host Adam Ho...
Tele Mike Russell: You Cannot Be What You Cannot See
Tele Mike Russell grew up as a sharecropper’s son in Delaware, before attending college and becoming an executive in the pharmaceutical industry. Then...
Eric Blehm: Meet Your Heroes
When Craig Kelly died in 2003, the world of snowboarding was devastated. Twenty years later, New York Times best-selling author Eric Blehm returned to...
Chris Davenport: Plugged-In To The Mountains
In the skiing universe, Chris Davenport is a household name. His notoriety is due in part to the many facets of the sport upon which he’s had a lastin...
Ellen Bradley: The Original Storytellers
Tlingit skier Ellen Bradley is an advocate, athlete, scientist and storyteller. Fierce and thoughtful, she defies the narrative that wild Alaska is th...
Jeremy Jones: The Art of Schralpinism
From a distance, Jeremy Jones’s career looks impossible. He is, after all, a pro snowboarder, entrepreneur, activist, filmmaker and author. Does he ev...
Jordan Campbell: Big Mountains and Broken Heroes
Jordan Campbell’s relationship with Backcountry spans more than two decades. He published his first story in the magazine—about a ski expedition to Ea...
Biff America: Beer is Great, God is Good, People are Crazy
Jeffrey Bergeron, aka Biff America, has spent the last 50 years living in the mountains, mainly in Breckenridge, Colorado. Yet his signature accent an...
Hadley Hammer: Love, Loss and Light
Hadley Hammer might just have the best name in backcountry skiing. Despite growing up in Jackson Hole, however, her path to becoming a professional sk...
Dave Grissom: Behind the Curtain at Voilé
For more than 40 years, Voile has broken trail in the backcountry. The storied Utah brand develops and manufactures its products in the Wasatch, and i...
Will Ritter: The Spark
Backcountry first caught a glimpse of Will’s prototype splitboard bindings in 2008. A brief writeup in the magazine that year was the precursor to inc...
Corinne Prevot: Dream Weaver
If you’ve been to a mountain town in the past decade you’ve seen the proliferation of Skida hats and neckies. They’re part and parcel now to global sk...
Lani Bruntz: Intrepid Explorer
We recently sat down with intrepid explorer Lani Bruntz, soon after she arrived home from a bikepacking trip in Mexico. Prior to that adventure, she w...
Nick Russell: Freeride Explorer
In this episode, we have a conversation with backcountry snowboarder Nick Russell. Like so many of today’s top snowboarders, Nick cut his teeth riding...
Jason Hummel: Cascade Crusader
Jason Hummel: Cascade Crusader
In this episode, photographer and Backcountry contributor Jason Hummel shares his passion for exploring far-flung...
Bruce Edgerly: BCA and Beyond
Bruce Edgerly, or “Edge,” as he’s known to the backcountry community, has been around the block. He cut his teeth in the outdoor industry by writing f...
Than Acuff: Talk of the Town
In this episode we sit down with Than Acuff, Executive Director of the Crested Butte Avalanche Center. The CBAC is a non-profit organization dedicated...
Setting Sail with Angel Collinson
Angel Collinson turned the freeskiing world upside down when, at 31 years old and the height of her career, she retired from professional skiing, swap...
Wingwalkers: The Story of California's Redline Traverse
There’s a range in America’s most populous state that’s hemmed in by desert and people. Each year, millions come to California's Eastern Sierra Nevada...
Gear Crazy
Given the epic demand for touring gear and the unprecedented way Backcountry Magazine had to test it last year, we pulled together some of our veter...
Powder Days
Backcountry Magazine Contributing Editor Heather Hansman is a recovering ski bum. In her new book, Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of...
The Two Cohens: Pro Skier Sam and his Photographing Father Lee
Like most ski bums, legendary photographer Lee Cohen was only planning on skiing at Alta, Utah, for one season. Forty years later, he’s still there, s...
The Seer: Avalanche Forecaster and Sage Drew Hardesty
A 22-year veteran avalanche forecaster for the Utah Avalanche Center, Drew Hardesty doesn’t simply give the avalanche forecast for the greater Wasatch...
The Makers’ Lament: Part 2
In April, we reached out to gear and apparel manufacturers to get their take on what the coronavirus pandemic might mean to the outdoor industry. It e...
Guide Nancy Bockino: Mother of Trees
Like all mountain pros, Nancy Bockino has had a lot of gigs to make it all work. Unlike a lot of mountain pros, Nancy seems to do what she loves year-...
A Walk on the Wildlands Side
No matter the job, Todd Walton’s work stumping for outdoor brands has never taken him far from backcountry terrain. As the executive director of Winte...
The Future of Ski Media
November 20 was a sad day for the ski community. It was the day POWDER magazine officially halted operations after 49 years of production. It was a st...
Bjarne Salén: Lensman of Legends
Powder, stoke, spines—they’re ski movie staples, but they don’t fully show what goes into a successful day in the mountains. Swedish filmmaker Bjarne...
Uphill and Beyond
What will backcountry ski travel look like this winter? How will the skiing economy deal with the uncertainty Covid-19 presents? Will trailheads be pa...
Plan B - Live: The Maker’s Lament
With supply chains throughout the world interrupted by the Covid-19 crisis, no industry has been left unaffected. And though we’re nearing skiing and...
Plan B - Live: Out There and Back
How have adventurers and adventures been impacted by the current Covid-19 pandemic? And what was it like for those out in the mountains when the crisi...
Plan B - Live: Climate and Covid
These days, we’re seemingly looking at everything through the Covid-19 filter. Today, Backcountry’s Plan B Facebook Live Podcast looks at climate chan...
Plan B - Live: The Go/No Go Paradigm
After a few weeks of adjusting to the new normal of social distancing and self isolation, host Adam Howard is joined by editor in chief Lucy Higgins t...
Annelise Loevlie: Icelantic Dreams
OK, we’re bragging here, but the CEO of Icelantic interned at Backcountry Magazine in 2004. That was just after she earned degrees in Spanish and Inte...
Dana Gleason: Pack Man
Dana Gleason retired a millionaire after selling his company, the legendary pack manufacturer Dana Designs, in the late ’90s. But he was adrift and ha...
Oliver Steffen: The Genuine Mind of G3
From making avalanche probes in his Vancouver kitchen, Genuine Guide Gear founder Oliver Steffen has been at the forefront of a slew of trends in back...
Spearhead Reimagined
The iconic traverse between Blackcomb and Whistler, B.C. is a paradox. It’s super crowded near its entry and exit points, yet you still have to winter...
The Electrification of Greg Hill
Like many of us, Canadian ski mountaineer Greg Hill is concerned about how his travels to the trailhead and around the world were contributing to clim...
Mike Hattrup, Ahead of the Turn
Over his three-decade career in skiing, Mike Hattrup has worn many hats: Freestyle athlete, film star, product innovator, mountain guide. He’s also a...
The Freaks
When Olympic Downhiller Wiley Maple wrapped up the 2018 World Cup season, he and some in his Aspen gang called “The Freaks” went to Chamonix, France t...