Posts Tagged: Backcountry

I visited Arches National Park and then spent six days floating the Colorado River through Canyonlands.

I explore the Sierra Nevada backcountry on a one-day skiing expedition near Kirkwood Mountain Resort.

The instructors of Stanford's Outdoor Education Program spent their annual retreat skiing through the Sierra Nevada back country.

The 2008 Outdoor Education Program instructors' retreat took us to the winding canyon of Arroyo Seco, near California's Big Sur State Park.

A cold, rainy weekend snowshoeing the Trinity Alps of Northern California.

The second half of my summer in Alaska was spent mostly in the back country, on a three-week trip through the Wrangell Mountain wilderness.

During my summer in Alaska, I spent a day ice climbing on a glacier.

I spent an incredible summer in the middle of America's largest national park exploring mountains, glaciers, and valleys.

A weekend backpacking trip in the Emigrant Wilderness of northern California.

As part of a wilderness training course, I went on a nine-day backpacking trip in the Bitterroot mountains on the border of Idaho and Montana.