What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? backcountry an Editors’ Choice freeride setup

an Editors’ Choice freeride setup and the puffiest puffy

Alpinist 93 | Spring 2026

Patience First attempted in 1981

Afloat More than two decades ago

education and the love of getting out there

What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? backcountry an Editors’ Choice freeride setupPaperback: 248 pages Edited by: John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson and Katherine Kassouf Cummings As we face an ever more fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? sparks ageless yet urgent questions: How will I be remembered? What traditions do I want to continue? What cycles do I want to break? How do we endure? Interweaving essays, interviews and poetry, this collection includes Linda Hogan, Wendell Berry,