Posts Tagged ‘ sidecountry ’

Osprey Karve 11 Sidecountry Backpack review

January 4, 2012
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Osprey Karve 11 (courtesy image)

Backcountry skiing is all the rage right now, but sometimes you just want to ride the lifts and find untracked powder beyond a resort’s boundaries. In those instances, you don’t need a full, heavy pack filled with tons of gear to get you through an entire day of touring. Enter the Karve 11 pack...
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Snowbird announces first ever Sidecountry Camp

December 22, 2011
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Ski fresh powder at a Snowbird Sidecountry Camp. (Photo: Jared Hargrave - UtahOutside.com)

In general, skiing has two options: resort and backcountry. But what some skiers may not know is that you can combine the two and ski the “sidecountry.” In essence, when you’re sidecountry skiing, you ride a ski resort’s chairlifts to the top of the mountain, but then ski down out-of-bounds back to the base....
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