Backcountry Magazine 123 - The Homegrown Issue Backcountry Gear Guide it Goes Down

it Goes Down

We take a deep dive inside two Vermont academies—Stratton Mountain School and Green Mountain Valley School—and explore other high-level training opportunities for the sport's up-and-comers and what affect those programs are having on the academy system

He is underground legend Jon Bailey

makes the case for trails

Backcountry Magazine 123 - The Homegrown Issue Backcountry Gear Guide it Goes DownThis issue is all about exploring the depths of your own backyard, wherever that may be. In Vermont, managing editor Lucy Higgins covers the complete history of backcountry skiing in the Green Mountain Statefrom the 1933 creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which created some of the Northeast's most iconic ski trails, to the groundbreaking work of today's backcountry alliances. Overseas, Scott Yorko follows French brothers Jean Baptiste and