Backcountry Magazine 160 | The 2025 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) evaluating each shot on everything

evaluating each shot on everything from lighting to composition to ski form to creativity

The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation celebrates history and looks to the future on the 50th anniversary of northern Wisconsin's first World Cup race

McDiarmid reflects on loss—and on living

taken by photographer Günther Goberl

Backcountry Magazine 160 | The 2025 Photo Annual Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) evaluating each shot on everythingOn the Cover: Photo magic is a meld of light, location, conditions and skier, all woven together through the eyes of the photographer. Oskar Enander is a master alchemist. Between Nov. 26 and March 25 of last season, he shot with Marcus Caston for five days in Engelberg, Switzerland. On one of the first days, Enander shot the image that landed the cover of our 2025 Gear Guide. On one of the last, he worked his magic again to capture Caston slipping