And thanks for all the feedback about northern NM. I just moved out here and am already really getting to know the mountains well. I know the area you’re talking about for Williams lake to wheeler peak - I’d love to rent one of the yurts and do something like that, but not sure it’s in the cards thi...

I should admit that I’ve combined disciplines. I suppose they call it “Nordic backcountry” or whatever. I put a dynafit TLT speed turn 2.0 binding on my Madshus epoch skis with an arcteryx procline boot (purchased massively on sale, like $100 for this amazing boot!). I’ve been taking it backcountry ...

Wow! Great responses, thank you all! Appreciate that link to the Tahoe mountain sports page, too. Seems like the skis themselves are quite different. SkiMo is very much uphill-as-fast-as-possible and built that way. I was confusing the core idea of “ski mountaineering” with what I use my xcd skis fo...

Greetings! Long time lurker, first time poster. Happy to be here. I haven’t been able to figure out the difference between, say, a Madshus epoch ski (99-68-84) and a light ski mountaineering ski like the dynafit black light (110-74-95). Is it the camber and the skiMo skis focusing more on the downhi...