Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue Jeremy Collins We’ve profiled five personalities in

We’ve profiled five personalities in transition

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Devon O'Neil heads into Colorado's Front Range with guidebook author Fritz Sperry to talk local secrets

CHANGING THE SNOWBOARD LANDSCAPE

Backcountry Magazine October 2012 - The Deep Issue Jeremy Collins We’ve profiled five personalities inFEATURES ESSAYS Snow Roads Driven In 1975 Dick Dorworth wrote a seminal piece titled Night Driving. With this essay in mind, we asked Dick to put some snow on the road and reboot. Skiing is Believing Sometimes the climb is as good as the descent. And if all snow were as light as the snow Drew Pogge writes of, the climb would be all we need. Perpetual Motion Skiers who don't know any better think topping out and transitioning on a splitboard is slow.