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Right: Jumbo Valley. Central Purcell Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove

The first time Leah Evans stood in southern

British Columbia’s (B.C.) majestic Jumbo

Valley, she remembers, “All the large trees

were shining, reflecting in the lake. There

were more glaciers than I have ever seen

in one place. It has been etched in my mind

ever since.” The Rossland, B.C.-raised skier

had been brought to this rare, wild environ-

ment in the Purcell Mountains as a preteen

outdoorswoman, by parents she refers to

as “first-generation adventurers.” Together,

her family had traveled via a ‘70s-era motor

home to Alaska, the Yukon Territories

and Bella Coola, but Evans immediately

felt a unique, powerful connection to the

Jumbo Valley.

As she stood there, her parents revealed

a hard truth: The Jumbo Valley was in

danger of being marked with a real-estate

development and a year-round ski resort.

Then they told her something even

more shocking.

“You’ll have to save this place.”

So in seventh grade, in 2000, when

Evans’s teacher asked her to write an

essay about a controversial topic, this

wild valley—threatened with one of B.C.’s

most contentious developments—was her

immediate choice. “I feel like people don’t

know what is back there. It is so huge, and

you’re so small. You have to go to understand

the magnitude of what could be lost.” She’s

been writing the Jumbo essay ever since.

At full build-out, the proposed Jumbo

Glacier Resort would offer 5,900 vertical

feet of year-round skiing on a proposed

20–30 ski lifts over 5,925 hectares of terrain

spanning four glaciers. The highest terrain

would reach 11,217 feet—B.C.’s highest ski

resort. Over the past 24 years, Italian-born,

Vancouver-based architect Oberto Oberti

has tried to get “Jumbo” (local shorthand

for the proposed development) off the

drafting table and into reality. Beyond the

small, bizarre victory of having an imaginary

town of Jumbo legitimized as a Mountain

Resort Municipality (Jumbo the town has no

residents, no infrastructure and no tax base,

but has a mayor and town council), there

has been very little movement. Spend time

speaking to residents of the Kootenays—

B.C.’s famous ski and snowboard mecca—and

you start to understand why. Very few

residents want this thing.

“I’ve watched it unfold my whole life,” the

26-year-old Evans says. “I’ve grown up with

the issue, and the government hasn’t been

Words:

Mike Berard

For 24 years, residents of the Kootenays in British Columbia, Canada, have been largely opposed to a

proposed year-round ski resort in the heart of the Central Purcell Mountains—a region that encompasses

both cherished alpine backcountry and critical core grizzly bear habitat. At the time this story was going

to print, the provincial government had just dealt would-be developers a significant blow by deeming the

ski resort project not “substantially started”—a finding that would require developers to return to square

one to reapply for an environmental assessment certificate in order to continue with their plan. As the

developers contemplate their next move, local skiers, snowboarders, climbers, wildlife conservationists

and First Nations peoples staunchly hold their line, hopeful that with this ruling, the quarter-century-

long battle may be nearing an end. But whether the developers redouble their efforts or their opponents

celebrate victory—what a long, strange trip it’s been.

The Fight to Protect Jumbo Glacier

Keep JumboWild

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listening. How can the plan still be alive when

so many people have said ‘no’ for so long?”

Those who say “no” are myriad. Wildsight,

a Kimberley, B.C.-based organization with

a mission to “protect biodiversity and

encourage sustainable communities,” has

stood with locals in staunch opposition

of Jumbo. “There are so many reasons to

oppose the Jumbo Glacier Resort,” says

Wildsight Executive Director Robyn Duncan:

“the threat to grizzly bears, a glacial water

supply, the fact that the area doesn’t need

another ski hill, the desecration of sacred

First Nations territory and the end run around

the democratic process. We’re united in our

deep sense of place and our commitment to

keep Jumbo wild.”

Since 1946, local hunter, fisherman and

trapper Nolan Rad has mined the Purcell

Range’s deep, dark veins; logged their flanks;

and pulled fish from the crisp streams that

bisect the valleys. For the past 20 years, he

has served on the Jumbo Creek Conservation

Society. The Shuswap First Nations Band—the

closest to Jumbo’s proposed site—agreed to

the project, citing “practical and meaningful

economic opportunities,” but the much larger

Ktunaxa First Nation has opposed it, claiming

the Jumbo Valley is within a spiritual area

called Qat’muk, the home of their Grizzly Bear

Spirit. “The Grizzly Bear Spirit is an important

part of our spiritual beliefs,” says Ktunaxa

spokesperson Kathryn Teneese. “It is our view

that our beliefs should be acknowledged and

recognized on the same basis of other belief

systems in this world.”

Brodie Smith, 29, was born and raised in

Invermere. He’s an Association of Canadian

Mountain Guides ski guide, a professional

member of the Canadian Avalanche

Association and the newest director of the

Jumbo Creek Conservation Society. Smith

has been backcountry skiing in the Purcells

for the past decade and guiding in this range

for the last five years. He believes building

a resort is shortsighted. “There’s a reason

Europeans and other people from around the

world flock here to experience the wilderness

of North America: They have very little left.

By creating ski resorts,” says Smith, “we don’t

stand to gain more wilderness, only lose it.”

And then there is the collective community:

For the past two decades a ubiquitous East

Kootenay bumper sticker has proclaimed an

almost universal desire to keep “Jumbo Wild.”

The overwhelming sentiment seems to be that

communities in the Kootenays don’t want this

resort, don’t need it and consider themselves

stronger without it.

The vast majority of skiers and

snowboarders around the globe ride lifts

and love them, even those who claim the

backcountry as their chosen playground. So

there’s an inherent tension in the fact that

many might drool in anticipation of, and

initially support, a new ski-area development

like Jumbo Glacier Resort; with a promise

of new, vast, lift-serviced terrain, one might

understand why. But the ambitious Jumbo

Glacier Resort build-out plan includes 5,500

hotel beds and 750 staff beds, while nearby,

locally owned ski resorts like Panorama,

Kicking Horse and Revelstoke struggle to

stay viable in an industry that’s been on a

steady decline for over a decade. What’s

built is built, and the effects on environment

and community of any ski resort are not small

nor easily reversible. They’re also especially

poignant when resorts operate well under

capacity year after year, as many do. Any

community or group of communities must

closely and fearlessly evaluate the need

for another resort. It must ask itself and its

government: Do we need another ski area

here when so much hangs in the balance?

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An immense, solitary creature, the grizzly

bear is more fragile than we believe, each

requiring up to 2,000 square kilometers as a

home range. When the home ranges of many

bears are fragmented—as the development

of Jumbo Glacier Resort will most likely

do—Ursus arctos horribilis will feel the effects.

Fragmentation in the trans-border British

Columbia-USA region puts the resulting

smaller grizzly populations at higher risk.

DNA surveys done over a decade ago across

Below: Local skiers and snowboard-ers largely oppose the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort, preferring to ride lifts at existing local resorts or tour into the backcountry under their own power and experience. Garrett Grove

Right: In 1974, activist John Bergenske helped establish the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park, the only intact ecosystem in south-eastern B.C. After several days tra-versing the contested Jumbo region, Bergenske pauses for a moment in the Jumbo Hut. Garrett Grove

Left: Ghost town. The Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality stands empty—a wilderness with no residents and no buildings—but still has a mayor and a town council. Garrett Grove

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Those who say “no.”

Facing: Pat and Baiba Morrow of Wilmer (top left); Car talk (top right); Chief of the Ktunaxa, Kathryn Teneese of Cranbrook (middle left); Ursus arctos horribilis (middle right); Jim Galloway of Brisco (bottom left); Christine Gagatek of Invermere (bottom right)

Above: Jumbo (top left); Elder of the Ktunaxa First Nations, Herman Alpine of Cranbrook (top right); Loni Funnel, Norm Funnel and Susanne Bailey spell it out (middle left); Theodore (middle right); Ktunaxa storyteller and spiritual leader Joe Pierre of Cranbrook (bottom left); Nolan Rad of Invermere (bottom right)

Photos by: Garrett Grove, Steve Ogle and Jasmin Caton

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Right: Alex Yoder, Jumbo Pass area. British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle

Left: John Bergenske, Jasmin Caton and Leah Evans during a week-long ski traverse into the Jumbo Valley. Garrett Grove

the central and south Purcell Mountains found that there were

significantly fewer grizzly bears in the Purcell Mountains than

the B.C. government estimated—in some cases, that number

was not far from the threshold for being considered threatened

by B.C. government standards. Dr. Michael Proctor—one of the

world’s leading bear biologists—says this is disturbing, not only

for Jumbo, but for all Purcell grizzly bears. “Keeping this core

anchor subpopulation healthy, intact and unfragmented is likely

essential to maintaining the long-term self-sustainability of

the larger Canadian regional Purcell-Selkirk grizzly, as well as

maintaining the international grizzly bear distribution extending

directly south into the United States.”

In other words, if bears cannot live and thrive in the Jumbo

Valley, they may have trouble regionally in the long run.

* * *

Despite the creation of a resort municipality of Jumbo and some

hastily poured concrete foundations at the proposed resort site,

Canadian Environment Minister Mary Polak still determined in

late June of 2015 that progress was insufficient. She found that

“the physical activities undertaken ... did not meet the threshold

of a substantially started project” and that Glacier Resorts Ltd.

would have to apply for a new environmental certificate to con-

tinue. Meanwhile, for locals, certain facts remain obvious: There

is no town of Jumbo. No one lives there. Real towns spring up

organically where like-minded people settle. They take time and

shared effort to develop into authentic communities, and this

corner of British Columbia is filled with great examples: Nelson,

Golden, Revelstoke, Argenta, Rossland, Fernie, Invermere. You can

see community on the bumper stickers, in the roadblock protests

and during town council meetings. You can hear it in passionate,

informed voices on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning

talk shows. You can feel it in the sense of unity that rises around

you when you mention the word Jumbo in any public venue. This

is what community is—people finding a common voice in support

of their needs. In the Kootenays, those needs are often wild,

untamed places. A real-estate development and a government

designation don’t make a community. People do, and the people

who live here have never wanted Jumbo Glacier Resort.

“I was standing on a peak in Jumbo this winter,” says Evans.

“I looked out at the glaciers and thought, ‘Who’s going to live here?

Who wants to live here?’ People find a place that speaks to their

heart and they settle. They did that in the Columbia Valley more

than a century ago. No one has wanted to put down roots in the

Jumbo Valley. Why would they? It’s so wild and raw. If there was

supposed to be a community back there, there’d already be one.”

Oberto Oberti has maintained that his dream is to build a

ski resort that would deliver deep, light Purcells powder year-

round in a location similar to his native Europe’s alpine regions.

Backcountry skiers and splitboarders already love the Jumbo

area for its wide-open glacial turns, so why wouldn’t lift-access

skiers? But the people who live in the communities most likely

to be affected—skiers, snowboarders, hikers and climbers among

them—have asked themselves the question and answered it.

They don’t want a resort here. They can visit more than a dozen

established ski resorts within a three-hour drive—including

Invermere’s own Panorama Mountain Village—and can still ski,

hike and climb Jumbo Pass via their own two feet and a heartbeat.

They don’t need to impact raw lands that remain sacred to other

humans and critical for wildlife survival. Given the complex and

often bizarre interplay between the Jumbo developers, the

British Columbia government and the opponents on the ground,

the convoluted battle over the Jumbo Valley may well rage on,

but the reasoning of the residents of the Kootenays has always

come down to a starkly straightforward statement:

We have enough already.

In the heart of British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, where grizzly bears roam through one of North America’s most important wildlife corridors, lies a deeply wild place that needs our protection.

Learn more about the issue and take action at patagonia.com/jumbowild

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In a helmet-cam, pole-mount world where any experience

can be shared by social media nearly at the speed of its

happening, hero status is achieved at 240 frames per second

and lasts about as long as an extended-life battery.

But the stubborn fact remains: Beneath any outstanding

backcountry experience—shared publicly or held private—there

lies a slow, deep accumulation of unglamorous practice, the

shared wisdom of many, and an infinite loop of “What if?”

questions that may lead as often to retreat as to success.

Like intelligent backcountry travel, building intelligent

backcountry equipment requires experience, constant

evaluation, picking apart decisions, balancing many variables

and digging deep enough to see the whole picture. It’s the

only track around dangerous pitfalls. Asking “What if?” also

fuels the exploration required to break through to new levels.

To unlock new potential, you have to imagine it first.

When Patagonia’s Alpine and Snow designers joined forces

to create our new Backcountry Touring collection, their line of

questioning went something like this: Can we make wearable

equipment cleaner, functionally better and more elegant? Will

it perform and protect on both the skin up and the ride down,

even in the worst imaginable big-mountain weather? What if

we put it through the heaviest use by the most visionary riders

and alpinists in the world, asked them what they thought and

incorporated their best ideas? What if we could do all that

and still use the most sustainable materials and supply-chain

practices in the apparel industry today?

Blasting ahead with what you know only takes you to the

end of what you know. We’d rather use our experience to make

the best gear we know how to make—then pick it apart again

and explore what we don’t know yet.

That’s our favorite terrain.

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Refugitive Jacket and KnifeRidge Pants

Alpine Regular Fit

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Extended and habitual resort riding often

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Leah Evans puts a finishing touch on the day. Jumbo Pass, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove

Like the best ski partners, PowSlayers know when to stand back and let you go first. Built with zero-bulk

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Left: Brodie Smith, Alex Yoder and Max Hammer investigate otherworldly terrain beneath Mount Macbeth. Jumbo Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle

Right: Max Hammer makes the first descent of a couloir with the Jumbo Glacier just behind. Steve Ogle

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Sign of the times. Portions of the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort sit directly in major avalanche paths—a fact that has hampered developers’ plans. Jumbo Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove

The Sweetgrass crew and friends at work on the upcoming film Jumbo Wild. Top left: Steve Ogle; All others: Garrett Grove

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For decades, skiers, riders, alpinists, conservationists, and First Nations have fought a large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. After 24 years of opposition, what more will it take to keep Jumbo wild for good?

JumboWild

Learn more. Watch the film. Get involved. patagonia.com/jumbowild

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A New Species of Ski FilmNearly a year ago, director Nick Waggoner of Sweetgrass Productions dove into the quarter-century-long fray unfolding at his doorstep in British Columbia.

Would-be developers of Jumbo Glacier Resort envision a

four-season ski resort and real-estate development that

would impact approximately 6,000 hectares of the wild

Central Purcell Mountains—but local community members

continue to push back. In a new film, Waggoner and his

crew trace the fascinating and convoluted development of

the Jumbo story, from the developers’ initial presentation

to the Canadian government for plan approval in 1993 to

today. The Jumbo story unfolds still, complete with political

intrigue, grassroots activism, guerrilla demonstrations,

government stop-work orders and impassioned community

outcry against a resort that developers promise would be “a

snow rider’s dream.” All the while, a vast, raw environment,

sacred to many First Nations people and critical for the

existence of the grizzly bear, hangs in the balance.

To see the Sweetgrass film and learn more about the

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Right: When it storms, this is how we roll. Max Hammer and Alex Yoder, British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle

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Top right: Leah Evans and Jasmin Caton get granular before a week-long traverse in the Jumbo Valley region. Garrett Grove

Bottom right: Route-finding in real time. Garrett Grove

You’d never skied together before this trip.

How’d the dynamic work?

Jasmin: A trip like this with new people

can leave you with a feeling of, “Hmmm,”

but this was definitely a “YES.” Hanging

out with Leah has inspired me to try some

more exciting stuff. Our skills are really

complementary, and we can offer each

other a lot.

Leah: For sure. I watched everything

Jasmin did because she has such depth

of experience out there. I’d see her do

something with her pack or something,

and I’d say, “Um, I’m going to do that with

my pack, too.” I want to learn as much as I

can from her.

You went to see where the proposed Jumbo

Glacier Resort would be if it came to pass.

Can you describe it?

Leah: I’ve skied in big mountains my entire

life, but I definitely felt like, “Whoa, this

is jumbo terrain.” And to put a ski area in

that valley makes no sense. As a forest

firefighter, I spent two years in this one field

picking up sticks, I got to know each tree

and log. Then they came and logged it, and

until then, I’d never felt what it was to be an

environmentalist. I guess I’d love to know

if the people who are making plans for the

Jumbo resort have ever actually walked

on that ground.

Jasmin: I totally agree. Having looked at

the plans and then seeing the terrain with

my eyes, I just … the pieces don’t add

up. The glaciers are crumbling and big,

with real relief and craggy rocks. There

are proposed ski lifts where the terrain is

totally rugged, there are runs that end at

huge icefalls. Even if I wanted this resort

to happen, I feel it’d be destined to fail,

or be much less than it’s supposed to be,

in a very half-assed way.

You make your living skiing, but you both

had very different ways you might’ve gone.

Leah: I grew up in Rossland and went to

university in Virginia on a field hockey

scholarship. But my heart was just not in it.

It was a matter of committing full-heartedly

to something, and for me it was skiing.

Jasmin: Academics were a huge part of

my life, and I was given a great scholarship

to university to study hydrogeology but

never really left behind the mountains. I

find meaning in guiding that I never found

working a science job. I guess it’s how I

express my concern about nature and the

wilderness. Guiding may seem frivolous,

but it’s not frivolous at all.

So you try and inspire your clients not just

to appreciate the environment, but also to

protect it?

Jasmin: A huge part of my job is capturing

people at a fresh state and then modeling

an appropriate interaction with the

environment. We’re recreating in this

space, and we need to do it well. I also

guide a lot of the same people year after

year so I see their evolution, see them tune

in and make connections about climate

and snow conditions.

Leah: I guess I don’t think of it as

something I do, it’s the way I am. As a

teacher, you are the example of how to

interact with a place. There’s a community

of people right now that’s changing how

we interact with the backcountry. It’s such

an exciting time.

Most ski movies today seem to celebrate

the extreme side of the backcountry. And

yet the quiet and the expanse are a huge

part of the actual experience for people.

Leah: I think we’re getting burnt out on

the speed of everything like Facebook

and Twitter. We want to be unplugged.

There’s something very organic about

getting up, putting your boots on and

going walking. It’s quieter but it’s more

Walking the Ground

Jasmin Caton and Leah Evans both live and work in southeastern British Columbia: Caton as a ski

guide and co-owner of Valhalla Mountain Touring; Evans as founder and director of the freeski

program Girls Do Ski in Revelstoke. Caton has been skiing the backcountry since she was a child, while

Evans comes from a hard-charging, competitive freeskiing environment. We spoke with them just

after they’d completed an eight-day ski traverse through a section of the Jumbo Glacier backcountry,

to see for themselves the site of the proposed and hotly contested Jumbo Glacier Resort.

Two skiers talk about wild places, community and defending the mountains that move them

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powerful. When you come out of a trip like

the traverse we just did, you’re not sure

you want to turn on your phone ever again.

Jasmin: There’s a group of people I’ve

guided several times who’d never done

anything other than cat-ski, but this year

they requested a week-long tour. I would

never have predicted that. What drove

them to this touring thing, because they

definitely struggled physically … I think,

even if they didn’t know they were seeking

it, they were drawn by the nonmechanized

nature of it. The silence, the expanse, the

deeper commitment. Because in the end,

without exception, every person who

stands on top of a mountain on a calm day

after touring there says, “It’s so quiet.”

It’s hard to avoid a discussion of risk when

we talk about backcountry skiing. What is

your relationship to risk and how do you

manage that reality?

Jasmin: There’s a saying, “You live and

die by your habits.” The days I log in

backcountry terrain every winter is well

over 100, so I always try to be vigilant with

my assessments and to err on the side

of caution—hopefully not so I’m robbing

myself of experience, but regrouping all

the time. You have to make tons of small

adjustments that hopefully keep the

numbers game from catching up to you.

It’s almost hard for me to get into Leah’s

head and emulate an athlete like her, who

skis with such confidence, because my

brain is so in the habit of assessing, where

I think, “That looks fun, but what if it goes

wrong?” I’m always asking, “What if?” So

to push myself physically to ski the way

I know I can, I need the right balance of

confidence and caution.

Leah: I’ve always wanted to push myself,

see how fast I can go, what I can jump.

That always worked for me. But I got in

an avalanche recently and it rattled me.

Now there’s a voice in my head that never

existed before. Now I think, I love all these

people (my family, friends, community),

and all these people love me. For me not

to respect their love for me isn’t an option.

I want to be here for a long time, so I’m

going to have to re-evaluate the equation

that had been working for me.

Your work takes you both to some incredible

places, but what makes a place home?

Jasmin: Community. The people I work

with. My husband. My dog. If I was there

by myself, a place wouldn’t be my place.

The landscape might allow for all sorts of

adventures, but community is what makes

it home. Squamish (where I work as a rock

climbing guide in the summers) is my

place, and so is Valhalla.

Leah: Revelstoke is definitely home. It’s

this little pocket where I’m normalized,

where all aspects of my life are accepted.

Does the prospect of the Jumbo

development throw a new light on your

home and community?

Leah: It takes time to build a community—

whether it’s my community in Revelstoke

or my wider mountain community—to

make connections, to learn how resources

are being used. I think the prospect of

Jumbo is a sad but galvanizing moment.

Jasmin: Having something to stand

behind, beyond our personal adventures,

has made for deeper conversations and

connections. People’s passion for the

issue, and how they dedicate their energy

toward it, inspires me. It’s made me

realize how much I respect people who

care about and act on things beyond their

personal pursuits.

What actions would you be willing to take

personally to oppose Jumbo?

Leah: Making people aware of the issue

is one of the biggest things we can do to

protest the build-out. I want to be on the

educational side of things, presenting

the issue to people, youth especially, and

encouraging them to get outside in nature,

to think about democracy and how it

should work.

Jasmin: I’ve been involved in civil

disobedience in the past, and I would

certainly spend some time waving signs

at a protest. But planning trips that raise

awareness of the landscapes at stake and

educating my clients would be a better

use of my skills. But I’m staying in this

fight. It’s shown me that it’s essential to

my happiness to be involved in something

bigger than just myself and my adventures.

“ Without exception, every person who stands on top of a

mountain on a calm day after touring there says, ‘It’s so quiet.’”

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Above: “I’ve skied in big mountains my entire life, but I definitely felt like, ‘Whoa, this is Jumbo terrain.’” – Leah Evans Garrett Grove

Left: “My brain is so in the habit of assessing. I’m always ask-ing, ‘What if?’” – Jasmin Caton Garrett Grove

Right: Evans and Caton raise a can to the trip. Garrett Grove

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He was a calculated risk-taker dedicated to climbing

and skiing some of the most challenging lines in

the world. Known for an effortless style on steep,

precarious terrain, he was as well-known for his

unmistakable personality. Dave contributed to our

Patagonia family in myriad ways—he had a natural

eye for product design and became one of our most

articulate and valued product testers. Many of the

Backcountry Touring designs in this catalog trace

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respected by his fellow ambassadors, he was the

instigator of many powder-laden adventures that we’ll

never forget.

He will be deeply missed.

Recognized as one of the world’s preeminent ski mountaineers, Dave Rosenbarger epitomized the pure passion skier— someone deeply committed to the sport, unmotivated by cameras or limelight.

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Cover: The first time she saw it as a young girl, the vast Jumbo Valley carved itself into the heart of skier Leah Evans. Years later, she’s part of the movement to protect the valley from development. Evans carves her wish into the table of the Jumbo Hut. Central Purcell Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove

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