Backcountry Magazine December 2010 - Photo Annual

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Backcountry Magazine December 2010 - Photo AnnualFeatures: 2011 Photo Annual Walled in at Colorados Alta Lakes Observatory Gear: Editors Guide to 2011 Apparel How to: Navigate whiteout conditions Basics for Action Photography Plus: Pioneering the North Cascades Picket Traverse Telluride Resort to offer guided sidecountry program USFS considers fees for Colorado fourteeners Breakout photographer Jason Hummel In memoriam of Thomas Charry

Beacons and Bags

in this case

ALL HE NEEDS IS THE CAPE

Eliseu Frechou 22 - The Climbing Life Observations from the dark side

battle the requisite inner demons and test the brotherhood of the rope against the mountain of numbers

soaring spires of ragged rock and ice—the Tombstone Mountains

Bernadette McDonald and Jerzy Porębski recount the disaster that ended the Golden Age of Polish Himalayan Climbing and the rescue that saved one man's life

Things Imagined

probes and emergency equipment: Ortovox sues Mammut over beacon compass How-to:

Only after seasons of use and abuse does gear become a "tried and true" friend

Poets among us

the golden spires of Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park lure alpinists into sagas of storm-lashed suffering and existential angst

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