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Soulful
- Inspiring
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Off-Piste Magazine offers a soulful perspective on backcountry skiing and related ski culture. Rooted in touring for turns and the lifestyle of dedicated skiers, our editorial content focuses on the celebration, promotion, and documentation of backcountry ski culture and equipment. We inform and inspire people to get out and explore!
Available free at over 250 specialty retail outlets, ski huts, and mountain town coffee houses throughout the mountainous west, our distribution is over 8,000 copies per issue including paid subscriptions. Our 11x17 tabloid format and stout paper stock set us apart from all other ski publications.
In addition to the print magazine, we maintain a high quality blog style website that includes regularly updated content highlighting gear, events, conditions, and breaking stories related to backcountry skiing and mountain culture.
Regular departments cover ski related news, portraits of core skiers, backcountry safety and etiquette, avalanche education, destination profiles, tales of adventure as well as quality in-depth gear reviews and images of skiing from around the world.
Off-Piste strives to inspire and inform readers.
For all the details, check out our latest media kit.
Principals
Based in Hood River, Oregon near the base of Mt. Hood and the heart of the Columbia Gorge recreation corridor, Off-Piste represents a collective of outdoor writers, photographers, illustrators, and designers all of whom are dedicated backcountry skiers at their core.
David
Waag - Publisher/Editor
David Waag is the founder and editor behind Off-Piste Magazine. A dedicated backcountry skier with over two decades of ski
adventure under his hat, Waag has climbed and skied around the world.
His writing and photographs have appeared in a range of publications
from Lonely Planet to Skiing Magazine. He brings
14 years of publishing, editorial, and design experience as well
as a great network of writer and photographer relationships to Off-Piste Magazine. dwaag@offpistemag.com
For more information, view our media kit or contact us.
Off-Piste/Free Heel Press
PO Box 1626
Hood River, OR 97031
509-999-2208
freeheel@offpistemag.com






















