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Break your piggy bank open and head for the snow. If there’s not enough in the piggy bank to get you to the southern hemisphere, get in your beater car and head for British Columbia. Going to a summer ski camp will take your skiing to the next level.
Resort Report, Brighton
After the deafening roar of the avalanche fades away, you search the slide path for signs of your two friends. Seeing no wide-eyed partners and hearing no cries for help, you take out your beacon, turn it to ‘search’, and begin what will likely be the most stressful half hour of your life.
Alpine Touring Bindings and Boots
Are ski bindings made , AT or tele, which can be used wiyh a Koflach plastic boot for bacountry travel?
Backcountry Ski Set-Up
From one plank inbounds to two in the backcountry
Study A-Board in Utah
Westminster College’s Winter at Westminster program lets you experience Utah’s Wasatch Mountains—and learn something while you’re there.
Wendy Fisher Interview
As one of the best skiers in North America, Wendy Fisher is the star of several Matchstick Productions and Warren Miller films. With the recent birth of her son, Wendy Fisher is still skiing hard and teaching the joy of skiing.
Employee Gear Closet - Katie Gold
Employee Gear Closet - Katie Gold
Haute Route: the skier’s European vacation
Get ready for the Haute Route. The lowdown—not to mention killer deals on gear and the guided trip—regarding Europe’s most famous hut-to-hut ski tour.
Which boots and bindings are compatible for Alpine Touring skiing?
How do I know which [ski] boots and bindings are compatible for Alpine Touring skiing?
Riding Jay’s Glades
In the trees of Jay Peak, Vermont, you won't share your stash with anyone.
Tanner Hall Contemplates the Meaning of Life
No other contemporary skier continuously incites so much debate. Why? The Kalispell, MT native spent his teenage years pushing the limits of freeskiing under the watchful eyes of a skeptical industry—and he took full advantage it.
New School Ski Review 2007
Park, Pipe, & BC Booter Planks: The Bottom Line.
Ski the Southern Hemisphere
Summer doesn’t bode well for the old powder jones. Luckily, it’s always winter somewhere. So pack you bags and wax your skis. We’ll show you where to make turns in the dead of the summer.
Employee Gear Closet: Josh Rhea, Direct Marketing Manager
He’s a gear-loving powderhound who’s mastered the art of the written word.
Employee Gear Closet - Jackie Baker
Employee Gear Closet - Jackie Baker, Marketing Copy Editor
Powder Mountain Resort Report
You’ve probably never heard of Utah’s Powder Mountain, but it’s the resort with the most skiable acres in the United States—and most of them are empty.
Solitude Resort Report
Solitude: where lift-lines are unheard of, powder days are the norm, and cold-smoke is only twelve miles from Salt Lake City.
Catch a Ride with Pantheon Helisports
Pantheon Helisports drops touring addicts deep in the BC backcountry—it’s heli skiing at its most rugged and ski touring at its finest.
Resort Report, Snowbird
Snowbird’s last season was a 201-day-long powder-filled blur with the total snowfall stacking up to 632 inches. Snowbird’s projected opening date for the 2005-2006 season is late November, and some exciting improvements await Bird-loving powderhounds.
Resort Report, Alta
Alta, renowned as North America’s powder mecca, is rich with ski history, bottomless powder days, and locals whose devotion is as strong as the snow is deep
New School Backcountry Skiing is Going Off
We’re going to let you in on a little secret, something we’ve learned after years of research. Don’t tell anyone, but learning new tricks in an icy terrain park really hurts. There is a much better way to practice switch 720’s – go into the backcountry and build a kicker.
Intro to Backcountry Skiing
Backcountry skiing is the fastest growing winter sport but it is one that intimidates many people. This is a quick guide to help you understand the basics of the excitement, dangers, and gear of the sport.
Advanced Backcountry Ski Travel
We're getting fired up about skiing, the days are getting shorter, the evenings cooler, and our ski shipments have started arriving, so we decided to run an excellent guide for the serious backcountry traveler.
The Skinny on Climbing Skins
Here are some suggestions for handling your climbing skins, those long pieces of nylon fabric that allow you to walk up powder laden slopes with your skis on. Learn how to put them on & take them off without removing your skis, and save precious time you can apply toward ripping powder!
Twin Tip Ski Climbing Skin Tips
recently bought a pair of K2 AK Enemy ski's. While I love every blissful minute on the ride down, I have found that on the hike up my G3 skins slip off the curved edges of the twin tip tails. I am not sure how to get those darn skins from sliding around the edges and falling off, therefore rendering them helpless and floppy. Any advice would be terrific.
Yurt Ski Trips
Do you drool with envy when you see shots of people skiing deep powder in remote locations? You can get yours, too—and for a lot less than a helicopter ride. A yurt trip is the best deal you’ll find for backcountry accommodations, and it’s an absolute blast.
Utah is the Place for Skiing
For most, a career gets in the way of skiing regularly. Americans go to work every day, relishing weekends when they drive hours to the nearest ski area, or the occasional week’s vacation in Colorado. There is a city, however, where you can be a professional and still ski your brains out any day of the week. Here's how.
Heli-Skiing: It Could Save Your Life
For the same cost as most earth-bound avalanche awareness classes, Wasatch Powderbird Guides provides a morning classroom session followed by a single heli flight into the field. The organization doesn't profit from the classes or flight—this is purely a community service. I was happy to volunteer my time.
Skiing the Unknown Mountains
Chris Solomon explores Utah's sunburned south on skis, and the peaks where the buffalo still roam (really) — the Henry Mountains. One of the last-surveyed and -named ranges in the Lower 48, the Henrys were terra incognita until the 1870s.
Jackson Hole's backcountry skiing access is as good as it gets
Youngest of all the Rocky Mountains and still growing, the Teton Mountain Range is one of the top backcountry destinations in the country. Jackson Hole is rimmed with tons of great terrain, providing plenty of excuses to escape the crowded resort area.
Yurt Trips In The Sawtooths
Inspired by Mongolian nomads, yurts are circular, domed canvas tents supported by hand-hewn wooden poles. The next question is: "Could Mongolian nomads shred?"
Skiing In The Wolverine Cirque
The slide path is 200-300' down the fall line and takes the shape of a cobra's head. Standing on top of ground zero I slither over to the fracture line allowing my tips to hang over its precipice. I can just make out where my friend was pulled unharmed from the white sure-pack two days ago.