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Snowmobilers and backcountry skiers working together to revive lost Maine ski area

You have to see it to believe it. That’s how the unlikely alliance between a snowmobile club and backcountry earn-your-turners came together in Brownfield, Maine,…Read More

Granite Backcountry returns to Portland, Maine for annual film festival

The Granite Backcountry Film Festival, showcasing films selected by Winter Wildlands Alliance to represent outdoor stewardship, grassroots advocacy, backcountry adventure, and the connection between humans…

Help revitalize New England’s glade network with GBA’s ‘Backcountry to the Future’

Want to help add 5,000 vertical feet to the Granite Backcountry Alliance (GBA) glade network in New Hampshire and western Maine? Then you've got to…

Western Mass. Backcountry Alliance aims to expand state’s skiing options

The excitement grew as I pulled into the parking lot of the Maple Villa ski zone in Bartlett, N.H. A fresh coating of snow from…

Granite Backcountry Alliance welcomes in fall’s #GIMBY season

New England’s fall foliage gets all the autumn headlines. But for a certain segment of skiers in the region, September also marks the beginning of…

Spring into adventure at these backcountry hotspots

It was inevitable perhaps, but when resorts shut down abruptly last March due to the coronavirus, throngs of skiers unwilling to let their seasons go…

Vail’s latest move helps make skiing more affordable than ever…is that a good thing?

Way back in 2016, a year before Vail purchased Stowe, skiers and riders could purchase a season pass at the Vermont resort for $2,313. With…

A welcoming vibe helps ski/snowboard brand Weston emerge

Leo Tsuo didn’t anticipate working behind the counter at a small snowboard shop when he was offered a job for Weston in Minturn, Colorado. He…

Here’s what to ‘know before you go’ into the backcountry this winter

A surge in backcountry skiing and snowboarding has been bolstering an otherwise flat snowsports participation bell curve for the better part of the past decade.…

Pandemic presents perfect timing for latest update of a backcountry classic

Author David Goodman will claim no clairvoyance on his part for the timing, a “perfect storm” for his work on backcountry skiing. This month’s release…

Black Mountain embraces backcountry during annual Wild Corn festival

If you’ve looked on social media, read online articles or have been involved with an outdoor community of any kind over the past few years,…

Trail-cutting dream on Maine’s Whitecap Mountain becomes a reality

For years, Jeff Marcoux stood on the true summit of Black Mountain of Maine in Rumford, gazing at Rumford Whitecap Mountain off in the distance. …

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