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Backcountry skiing

Skier’s Paradise: Backcountry Hut & Yurt Destinations

November 30, 2012

By Sarah L. Stewart | Backpacker Magazine | Fall/Winter Gear Guide 2012 Baldy Knoll Yurt Tetons, ID/WY Explore a big-view ridge with 5-star skiing in all directions. When we looked for the perfect place to test this year’s Editors’ Choice Snow Award finalists, it didn’t take long to pick the Baldy Knoll Yurt. Perched at 8,800 feet on the west slope of the Tetons, the ridgeline basecamp sits in the middle of a skier’s choice of big bowls, …

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Skiing in the Grand Teton Mountains

November 4, 2012

By Molly Loomis | Globe Correspondent | Boston Globe | November 04, 2012 Photo by Mark Fisher DRIGGS, Idaho The moment Katie crested the hill she stopped. “Those can’t be dogs,” she said. We caught up just in time to see four animals dashing across a bench on the other side of the small valley. Too large to be coyotes, too small and high in the mountains to be elk, they were wolves. Four of them. Our group of eight friends was less …

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