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Do You Have to Free Your Mind to Free Your Heel?

Posted by Avery Stonich of Outdoor Industry Association on January 8, 2013
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Skiing the Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada. Photograph by Markus Nurmi, My Shot

I’d put myself in the fairly adventurous category, but when it comes to backcountry skiing, I’ve never really given it a fair shake—despite having many “pinhead” friends who‘ve been trying to convert me for years. This perplexes me. Why the heck am I not ripping up untracked pow pow in the backcountry? By all measure,…