Mountain Flyer | Number 62 alpinist 64

Mountain Flyer | Number 62 alpinist 64[On the cover] Deep in Colorado's Elk Mountains, Dylan Stucki flows through a corridor of yellow and gold on a crisp late September day. These fleeting moments of autumn high country riding are always some of the best of the year. Joey Schusler FEATURES Our Land, Our Story Photographer Carl Zoch makes a pictorial argument for the protection of public lands. This issue's photo essayhighlighting adventures in places like Bears Ears National Monument,

Alastair Walker and Pat Deavoll offer perspectives on the modern renaissance of a place that's increasingly become the center of New Zealand's technical alpinism

Douglas Brockmeyer nearly loses his life and his marbles

is still home to some of the best cross country skiing on the planet

The kids in Sugarbush's Ski Mountaineers program head into Vermont's backcountry

a climber searches for a way to fly free

and while his 14er record helped shaped his transition from military to civilian life

turns to Moffat for inspiration as she sets out on a journey through the American West to understand what it really means to abandon everything for the mountains

BRIGHTER SKIES

This summer was a notably active one for wildfires across the West

usually in alpine style

Night Driving: Invention of the Wheel and Other Blues is a splendid record of one man’s personal journey through the backroads and mountain ranges of the world

Ybarra and his partners struggled not to lose their fingers or their lives