Video: Splitboarding into Idaho Selkirks’ backcountry powder

WINTERSPORTS — In this short, sharp video, Benjamin Read chronicles the rewards of an early start and muscle-powering up through frigid temps and clear skies to revel in the remote unblemished slopes of the North Idaho’s Selkirk Mountains.

“Good times earning turns with Kris Scott off Jeru’s North Ridge in the Selkirk backcountry,” Read says, recalling the day above timberline east of Priest Lake.