Backcountry Magazine 121 - The Spring Issue

FEATURES THE GREAT BARDINI Allan Bard wasn't just one of the most highly regarded mountain guides of the 1970s and '80s. According to Tom Carter, Bard's longtime friend and colleague in guiding California's Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, "Allan was a world-class zealot, an upbeat and hilarious vaudevillian cornball poet." And while Bard suffered an untimely death 20 years ago, his writings and musings live on in these pages. THE GATEKEEPER Unlike other mega resorts like Jackson Hole, Wyo. and Snowbird, Utah, California's Squaw Valley has kept its backcountry gates firmly closed to the public. But internationally renowned mountain guide Adrian Ballinger is working to change that. Through careful negotiations between the resort and his guiding company, Alpenglow Expeditions, Ballinger is aiming to change his backyard's boundaries. THE CHUTING LEGACY In 1998, Andrew McLean took 90 of the best lines in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and created a cult classic. The Chuting Gallery, reprinted