For most backcountry skiers, it is clear that Alpine touring gear rules in ‘real’ mountainous terrain like the Rockies or Alps. But it can easily be overkill and hence not really much fun in less drastic, hilly areas. That is where backcountry Nordic comes into its own… … alas, with its own little snags! Having …
… not that I’m very successful at learning it! The Catamount Trail Association has this page to offer about Using the Rear Foot Actively. Its strength for me and presumably others is that it addresses Alpine skiers and their acquired instincts rather well. Note: This rear foot business isn’t a detail to investigate once you …
I have been an Alpine skier for over 40 years, but in recent times I have added some Nordic backcountry skiing to my agenda – the main reason being that I can do it in my home area whenever it chances to snow (rarely). I just take a bus up to the local hills and …
As I struggle to hone my packrafting skills, I have decided to maintain a loose collection of the online resources I am finding the most helpful. Unlike most other Trails&Tours content, it is going to live on this website to remain easy to find on a permanent basis. Today, I would like to start off …
A quick note to state the obvious (to anyone who glances at the navigation menu): I have put up a section for German content, fed by the new Trails&Tours German-language Facebook page. This was important to me, since I live in Germany and have a German mother… and quite often like to write in the …
Trails&Tours ought be faster now, because I have tweaked the cache settings – meaning you should usually get pre-processed content instead of troubling the site’s database and waiting for it to respond every time you click for something. If you don’t understand the above, it doesn’t really matter. All you will notice is more speed …
This is the place to find posts that only live here on this site – most commonly site news or news about our other channels. As you can see, I haven’t found occasion to populate it yet (beyond this little note, which more or less repeats what the box next to it already says)!