Trip Reports

Hiring a Backcountry Guide By Ty Mills All Aspects Alpine 40 Tribes Eagle Pass Heli Skiing Golden Alpine Holidays   What are some great reasons to hire a guide in the backcountry?  Well let’s back up a bit and explore the guiding concept.   What is a Guide?  A guide is defined a person who leads travellers, sportsmen, or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations. The term can also be applied to a  person who leads others to more abstract goals such as knowledge or  wisdom.  Different Guiding Types include but are not limited to  Tour Guide  Mountain Guide Wilderness Guide Hunting Guide etc.  Mountain...

Written By Justin Morgan  Phantom Team Rider Cardiff Snowboards   3rd Time’s the Charm! The Art of Patience While Touring in the Backcountry   When we scroll through Instagram, watch movies, or read articles about epic lines around the world, we all dream of tackling these same types of big objectives in the mountains. What we don’t often see ate the struggles and failures that go into riding some of these lines. And although many understand that conditions or situations don’t always line up for the big objective, others get themselves into dangerous situations due to a lack of patience....

When to Go and When to Say No  The Skillet Glacier Route and the 5 Red Flags By: Izzy Lazarus  Phantom Team Rider Jackson Hole Mountain Guides Alpine Ascents   The Skillet Glacier route…does it ring a bell? Maybe you have the 50 Classic Ski Descents on your coffee table, maybe you’ve been following Cody Townsend as he pursues his goal of skiing all of those lines or perhaps you’ve laid eyes on the behemoth of a mountain that is Mount Moran, [the 12,600’ peak in the northern Tetons] and wondered what it would be like to carve turns down...