Stewardship Archives

Oct 10, 2020

The Ultimate Guide
to Backcountry Skiing

The Ultimate Guide to Backcountry Skiing and Riding After each one of our courses at Baker Mountain Guides, we do our best to provide useful resources to our students so they can continue their education and not completely forget all the things they learned from us. There’s a lot of great information out there, but […]

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Oct 10, 2020

Winter Backcountry Trail Etiquette

The 10 Commandments of Winter Backcountry Trail Etiquette Say you’re going up an established skin track and a group of bandit snow-shoers are descending upon you like an unruly pack of cackling cayotes clutching White Claws. Who has the right of way? How can you engage with other backcountry users in a respectful way that […]

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Apr 20, 2021

Reverence, Respect,
Reciprocity

Reverence, Respect, Reciprocity: A Sustainable Future for Recreation Recreate [ rek-ree-eyt ]: verb: to give new life or freshness to, refresh. To restore physically or mentally. On a trip across the North Cascades Highway this past autumn I witnessed something that I’d never seen before in my lifetime: 700 cars parked at Rainy Pass. The […]

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Jun 24, 2020

Reimagining
Recreation

Reimagining Recreation The deer sees me before I see it. This is usually how it goes. Sometimes they bolt, sometimes they stare at me, frozen, waiting for anything to move. I’ve made an art out of courting these deer, trying to see how much of their trust I can earn. Oftentimes, I’ll kneel down, attempting […]

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