Activities enjoyed on the mountain include hiking, and in the winter, snowshoeing and backcountry skiing.
Instead, backcountry pottery is explained by rational economic behavior of producers and consumers whose choices are constrained by location at the distant ends of dendritic or solar market systems.
Sometimes their trips would be hiking into the backcountry, looking for undisturbed places of raw, and rare beauty, to paint, sometimes for weeks.
Outdoor recreation activities include hunting, picnicking, as well as backcountry camping.
The "backcountry" look of the pottery is probably common in peripheral areas.
Backcountry pots the occasional high-end piece, and these infrequent trips will undercut peripheral potters' ability to produce high-end products for local consumption.
The ski area is known for numerous challenging in-bounds routes and for the many backcountry opportunities that surround it.
In the words of one of the protesting backcountry men, ' they did not know their liberties were invaded, but they were sure their lives and estates were ' (p. 66).
