Buyer’s Guide 2022 selection

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CARVING MASTER  The Deacon was already a fully loaded, frontside punisher before Völkl ordained it to the next level, the Deacon 76 Master. Upgrades are the same as the M6 […]

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Safer Gear – Buyer’s Guide 22

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  We’re not the fun police or Astar, the Play Safe robot, but we also know injuries suck. The right gear can keep you skiing, instead of sidelined. Sweet Protection Grimner […]

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Tailgating and Lodge Dodging

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Osprey Glade 12 It’s amazing what you can fit in a small space. The Glade may be only 12 litres (it also comes in a 5-litre version), but it has […]

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Dress to Impress

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  Hiding under these stylish exteriors is technology to keep you comfortable. Kari Traa Silja Long Sleeve and Pant: Heritage ski patterns in a modern aesthetic is how we’d describe the […]

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Racer Ready? 2022 Gear

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Auclair Race Fusion To protect hands from gate bashing, Auclair harnessed the morphing armour of D3O. Most of the time the polymer built into the back of the glove is […]

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Buyer’s Guide 2022 Intro

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  With all the gloomy predictions, who would have thought that last winter would prove to be an excellent one for the ski industry. Ontario excepted. Looking for an alternative to […]

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Coming to a Ski Shop Near You

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Reading Time: 3 minutes From the longest lift lines in memory to locked-down resorts to the continued rise in alpine touring, the one thing uniting skiers across the country is our hopeful look to […]

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Gear & Gadgets – Vol 49 #3

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Reading Time: 6 minutes You’ve reached the summit, the sun’s gone, the wind’s picked up… You know that cold, clammy feeling, especially on your lower back, whether it’s after a huffy-puffy skin uphill or […]

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Buyer’s Guide 2021 – All-Mountain

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As an All-Mountain skier, you’re pragmatic and easygoing—but not blown by the wind. When the lifts start spinning, you follow the soft snow wherever it takes you: early-morning groomers, bumps […]

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What’s Trending

Reading Time: 5 minutes What’s the latest in ski gear? Where’s the sport heading? When we take a step back and look around there are trends in motion, changing the landscape in ski width, […]

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Buyer’s Guide 2018 introduction

Reading Time: 2 minutes Your Gear is Here by RYAN STUART, tech editor, in Buyer’s Guide 2018 issue My best run last season came in mid-April. Right after my worst run. On a pair […]

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Gear & Gadgets December 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes As a key layer under your shell or on its own breaking trail, Smartwool hit it out of the park with its Propulsion 60 Jacket ($209), also in women’s. Added […]

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New product reviews

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Reading Time: 2 minutes by RAY O’REILLY in the Fall 2016 issue With all the Euro-influence in the ski world, stumbling at pronouncing a product name can give it street cred, so we were […]

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Backside 2017

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Experimentation is where it’s at. From bindings to boots, poles to skis, freeride has always been about trying stuff: tweaking sidecuts and ski shapes; widening and lowering bindings; even making […]

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The new technology of layering

Reading Time: 3 minutes One day last winter it was -19 C at the bottom of Lake Louise and -1 C at the top. Known as an inversion, because the typical temperature gradient of […]

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Gear & Gadgets

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Reading Time: 2 minutes 1. For the first time, Canada’s Mountain Equipment Co-op has launched its inaugural alpine ski collection this autumn with six jackets and four pants specifically targeted at resort skiers and […]

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Big Mountain

Reading Time: 7 minutes More than great window dressing, wide-girthed boards mean business. The Big Mountain category, along with its Alpine Touring (AT) subset, has grown steadily since the advent of rocker technology. With […]

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Testers’ Choice

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Reading Time: 8 minutes With the tape used to mask the topsheets gone, we can reveal our testers’ favourite skis in each category (as well as their sponsors). It’s time to match your own […]

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Putting on Airs

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Reading Time: 2 minutes from Ski Canada Buyer’s Guide 2015 IN THE BACKCOUNTRY Rather than follow, BD decided to reinvent the airbag packs designed to keep skiers on the surface in an avalanche. Like […]

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What’s Trending

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Reading Time: 3 minutes from Buyer’s Guide 2015 He said, she said Overheard at Denver’s  2014 SIA trade show: “If that were a bicycle, it would be a $10,000 frame.” Michael Kay talking about […]

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Gear & Gadgets * Winter 2014

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Reading Time: 3 minutes by Ray O’Reilly in the Winter 2014 issue   1.  Nice wheels! No, seriously, if you could add a motor to this bag, you’d drive it through an airport. Tough […]

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All Teched Out

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Whether or not your ski experience is going to be revolutionized, it sure is fun to play in the candy store.  by Ryan Stuart in Winter 2013 issue 1.  The […]

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Ski geometry

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Heart of the matter As the ski industry pushes its boundaries, skis, boots and bindings have followed suit. Behind every astounding pro trick, you’ll find an army of engineers looking […]

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Split Decision

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite Utah’s trademarked, and distracting, “Greatest Snow on Earth” swirling outside the windows of Snow Basin’s magnificent base lodge in January, I was still able to listen intently to a […]

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