Longtime contributor Kyle Dickman is a former editor at Outside. He’s the author of On the Burning Edge and lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico, with his wife, Turin, and their two kids. Climbing is ...

Last winter, after wearing a pair of poorly insulated boots to do a “skimo” (or ski mountaineering) course in my hometown of Crested Butte, Colorado, in 10 degrees Fahrenheit, I came down with a case ...

For skiers, seeing a mountain you want to ski down but no chairlift isn’t a problem. If you have the right boots, you attach sticky, grippy “skins” to the bottom of your skis and ski your way up. It’s ...

In the historical progression of snowboarding, splitboarding is one of the most recent and most fascinating innovations. The practice of splitting a snowboard in half, attaching skins to each half, ...

The concept of skiing or snowboarding in the UK might seem like a pipe dream, but, when there’s snow on the ground, the Munros and mountain ranges of Scotland are a winter sports playground. One ...