Photos: (Top) Nick Russell takes a load off while volunteering to splitboard on behalf of Yosemite toads. CHRISTIAN PONDELLA (Middle) Ryland Bell spends his entire winter riding spines around his home in Haines, Alaska, so calling this one “the line of his life” is saying a lot … then you hear it took a month of waiting on a remote glacier and a 4,000-vertical-foot bootpack to make it happen. Totally worth it. NICOLAS TEICHROB (Middle) Miguel Boehm jams on the 3,100-foot, 19-pitch stunner Positive Affect (5.12b) on Arco Iris. Cochamó Valley, Chile. CATALINA CLARO (Middle) Ramón Navarro parks it in a Chilean underpass. MITICO MOMENTUM (Middle) Pea soup with a side of wind. Maddy Pfeifer navigates some classic East Coast weather midway through an attempt at the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. BRENT DOSCHER (Bottom) The calm before the storm. Opening day at Patagonia Casa Frey in Bariloche, Argentina. MECHI FAHS
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