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Category: Esoterica
Esoterica
For the more out there, hard to pin down pieces: Esoterica is their home. What exactly is Esoterica at The High Route? We'll know soon.
Rewinding with the Handbook of American Mountaineering
Rewinding an old 1942 text in the Handbook of American Mountaineering and finding some simple and energetic illustrations. We are glad, though, the book’s ski carry techniques are relics of the past.
The Notes I Keep in my Backpack
What if?
That’s a question I ask myself every time I turn on my beacon. What if. What if I don’t come back?
Skimo Ain’t Uphilling: Bike Trails, Cat Roads, and Mountains
Lacking a local on-piste ski area to “uphill,” no problem: Alex Lee makes the training work in a terrain and conditions smörgåsbord.
An Isothermal Buzzkill
The prefix “iso” means equal or the same. We often refer to an isothermal snowpack in snow science and the backcountry enthusiast’s lexicon. You guessed it, an isothermal snowpack is a snowpack with an equal, or uniform, temperature throughout. And on a lengthy ski traverse isothermal snow can be a buzzkill.
