After a couple storms rolled in, and in anticipation of this article, I reached out to Brede and Banks to learn more about the website and community they’ve helped create. Just days after talking with them, I got a text from Banks asking if I was interested in a backcountry trip on the first weekend in December. An offer too good to pass up. So there I was, dusting off my languishing backcountry gear, checking the batteries on my avalanche beacon and getting stoked on the prospect of some early season turns. The trip, out of Wallace and up to the Glidden Lakes area, wasn’t without a few fumbles and rookie mistakes — accidentally jamming the throttle and forcing us to bail once on the snowmobile ride out and not understanding how my touring bindings worked — but at the end of day I was like a kid in a candy store skiing untracked lines on either side of a ridge that splits Montana and Idaho. With a decent snowpack in the high country and plenty of winter ahead of us, there’s no better time to get out into the backcountry. And thanks to a couple friends, who helped build a community for people who love the sport, you don’t have to go it alone. n Carl Segerstrom is a journalist who covers the environment and communities of the American West. He is a contributing editor for High Country News magazine. Follow him on Twitter @carlschirps.
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