First AScent ripper Wyatt Caldwell gives us the update on stocking the yurt, ripping Baldy’s Banked Slalom and building backcountry booters at an abandoned mine site.

Story and photos by Wyatt Caldwell After returning to Idaho from an incredible trip to Haines, AK, this year, Chris Coulter and I were still hungry for a spring  snow-camping adventure. We heard word that our fellow teammates Zach Crist and Eric Leidecker were going to make a ski traverse across the Boulder White Clouds Mountains

Story and photos by Wyatt Caldwell Haines, Alaska, is a magical place. I have been fortunate enough to return to Alaska for the last three years in search of that perfect spine run that will be implanted in my brain forever.

Watch First Ascent snowboarders Chris Coulter and Wyatt Caldwell in action in this latest dispatch from the team in Haines, AK.

Mountain guide David Morton, skier Lexi duPont and snowboarders Chris Coulter, Kyle Miller and Wyatt Caldwell will join the roster of First Ascent athletes.

First Ascent snowboarders Chris Coulter and Wyatt Caldwell spend the week at Tailgate Alaska, a premier backcountry snowboard event that attracts some of the world’s best riders.

By Chris Coulter and Wyatt Caldwell After 3,000 grueling miles over a 5-day period covering Idaho, Alberta, British Colombia, the Yukon, and Alaska, we finally arrived at the fabled Thompson Pass in Valdez, AK.