Backcountry Magazine 153 | The Core Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) the first known Black woman

the first known Black woman to climb the Nose and the founder of Brown Girls Climbing

This issue is all about exploring the depths of your own backyard

Alpinist contributor Mailee Hung presents some of Forman's work and her potential impact on climb- ers' understanding of climate change

a climber searches for a way to fly free

Backcountry Magazine 153 | The Core Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) the first known Black womanOn the Cover: As a winter storm buried B. C.s Selkirk Mountains, Bruno Long and Chris Rubens hung their soaking gear to dry and settled into their sleeping bags. In the morning, the trail breaking felt like a contact sport. But when the skiing is this deep and the shots this good, no one was really complaining about getting a little bit wet, says Long. Above an untouched powder field, a subtle shift in mindset occurred and, in the pillows below,