Backcountry Magazine 154 | The Blue Collar Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) Guy Fattal learns that the

Guy Fattal learns that the region is more than just spines and helicopters

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Backcountry Magazine 154 | The Blue Collar Issue Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (Downloadable PDF) Guy Fattal learns that theOn the Cover: With dramatic relief and a knife edge ridgeline, Mount Smuts (9,639) is known in the summer months to be one of the most difficult climbing scrambles in the Canadian Rockies. But its a different story when the snow begins to fall. With a powder padding to ease his journey, Bryan Fenske follows the summit ridge bootpack toward Smuts, with the hopes of skiing the peaks nearly 50 degree south face, one of the classic lines in Albertas