What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? backcountry A new binding system bridges

A new binding system bridges the gap between SNS and NNN

an Editors’ Choice freeride setup and the puffiest puffy

a collection of Dick’s ski writing

education and the love of getting out there

Alpinist 93 | Spring 2026

What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? backcountry A new binding system bridgesPaperback: 248 pages Edited by: John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson and Katherine Kassouf Cummings As we face an ever more fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? sparks ageless yet urgent questions: How will I be remembered? What traditions do I want to continue? What cycles do I want to break? How do we endure? Interweaving essays, interviews and poetry, this collection includes Linda Hogan, Wendell Berry,