Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Print Issue boots and bindings for this

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and riders make waves in new terrain

home where he investigates nature versus nurture and follows the boys down puckering sidecountry chutes

alpinist Anna Pfaff wanders off the maps and into unexpected adventures

Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Print Issue boots and bindings for thisFeatures Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good, the Great, and the Awesome, Peter Croft calls the Palisades "the most mountainous mountains in the Sierra Nevada." Half hidden behind foothills, these spiny 13,000 to 14,000 foot peaks have allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics and wanderers. Doug Robinson follows a "trail of mentors" that leads from the early mountaineers of the Sierra Club, to generations of prolific soloists such as the