The big-mountain peak-to-valley off-piste skiing at Disentis, Switzerland is amazing. The biggest of these runs is Staldenfirn, a double-tour, double-descent route totalling more than 9,000 vertical feet. To read an illutrated pdf of my article on Disentis from the January 2010 issue of Backcountry Magazine, please click here.

Big Sky, Montana has some of the best skiing terrain in North America, including long north-facing runs akin to the classic big-mountain skiing of the Alps. To read an illustrated pdf of my article on Big Sky in the December 2009 issue of Ski Canada, please click here.

To read my article on off-piste skiing in Sulden by the famous Ortler Group, published in the December 2009 issue of Backcountry magazine, please click here.

Click here to view a pdf of the lay-out and photos of a story of mine published in the December 2005 issue of Ski Magazine of Holland.
The original English text is provided below:
[Original sub-hed] Huge peaks and vast backcountry on a road-trip among Switzerland’s unknown C-list resorts
The broad face fell away in an opening pitch that [...]