Cross Country Skier 2024 Gear Guide Print or Digital?:Digital (Downloadable PDF)

Cross Country Skier 2024 Gear Guide Print or Digital?:Digital (Downloadable PDF)As ski season draws near, our 2024 Gear Guide ensures youll be ready, with test results for almost 50 new skis, boots, poles and bindings, plus previews of additional items. Need some inspiration on where to use that new gear? Winter is the perfect time to visit a national park, and we feature ski trips to three of themGlacier, Yellowstone and Waterton Lakesas well as Quebecs Gatineau Park. Veteran ski journalist Peggy Shinn previews the World Cup

Breaking and Bad

who spend the winter wearing the items and trying to wear them out

The Editors Editor's Note The new editor of Alpinist sounds off

Historic icefall on Washington's iconic peak

Sharp End Alpinist’s departing editor-in-chief ponders the fates of climbing magazines

Andrew Burr realizes that the deepest artistic creations can sometimes result from the crossing of both permitted and forbidden boundaries

[Photo] Eric Berger

Chain of Fools: Along Came a Spider

Words and Images by António Abreu

Tommy Caldwell has pursued hard routes on big walls and high peaks

• Tapered leg Size guide

John Long shares three flash fiction tales