Sentence examples for my backcountry from inspiring English sources

But most of my backcountry fantasies involve being a participant, not a spectator.

I'd had to wade to the A-frame for my backcountry permit, had found fresh fat-tire bike tracks on the road to Glacier Point.

In all my backcountry travels, I had never seen as many tents as there were pitched at one popular campsite on the northern shore of Lake Pehoé, south of the Paine Massif.

In the distance sat a small saddle where in a few years I'd spend days building a modest village of igloos close to my favourite backcountry runs.

Unable to free up a full week for the more official Powder Introduction workshop, my friends (backcountry rookies also) and I had arranged for a mini-clinic within C.M.H.'s "pay as you play" program, which lets skiers pay à la carte for as many runs as they're up for.

Because we had no backcountry experience, my friend Annemarie and I enlisted a guide from Canadian Skyline Adventures, the only Jasper-based outfitter that leads hikes of the Skyline Trail.

So even though I'm not taking my family into the backcountry, per se, I know we may very well find ourselves an hour away from definitive medical care.

This was my third and final day as a guest at Lone Mountain Ranch, where I was cross-country and backcountry skiing with my New York City kayaking pal Joe Calto.

My second morning was spent backcountry skiing in a remote corner of Yellowstone Park.

Savoring tangible souvenirs of my two weeks in the backcountry of Maine: multiple multi-color bruises on legs and hips from tumbles into the raging Wassataquoik Stream north of Katahdin, scratches on my arms from Saddle Ridge boulders on our darkened 8 p.m. descent, a few pounds lighter in my body.

The other thing that many people will not find relaxing – but for some reason my family does – has been taking backcountry ski trips annually for a number of years.