Gear
Test 2020 – Dynastar Intense 4×4 82 Pro
Reading Time: < 1 minutes BEST FOR: Advanced-expert, all-mountain women skiers. LENGTHS: 156, 164, 171 DIMENSIONS: 130/82/110 RADIUS: 16@164 SUGGESTED RETAIL: $600.00 OTHER MODELS: 82, 78 To develop an all-mountain weapon between its Legend and […]
Read more »Noteworthy 2020: Leki BOA glove
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Leki BOA glove BOA FOR BETTER POLE PLANTS To improve the connection between its Trigger S pole system and matching gloves, LEKI teamed up with BOA. Everything from ski boots […]
Read more »Blizzard Quattro
Reading Time: < 1 minutes TAMING THE QUATTRO Blizzard is making its popular Quattro friendlier, tweaking the on-piste carvers with the heart of a race ski to be a little more forgiving. That includes […]
Read more »Lange LX
Reading Time: < 1 minutes LX Stands For Luxury If 96mm is a rockclimbing shoe last and 104mm is a slipper, 102mm might be Goldilocks, especially in Lange’s LX ski boot. It’s available in men’s […]
Read more »Renoun Atlas
Reading Time: < 1 minutes A Ski For Explorers An atlas can take you anywhere. On the ski hill, Renoun’s Atlas promises to do the same. The international award-winning Vermont brand’s ski is primarily a […]
Read more »Test 2020 – Elan Black Edition Insomnia
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fast As A Porsche Porsche builds fast, refined cars. Elan builds skis that make our sport more fun. And when the two companies work together on a product, we […]
Read more »Noteworthy 2020: Fischer RC4 Podium GT
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Usually only top-of-the-line gear comes with all the features. With ski boots, that means if you want all the bells and whistles—heat-mouldable liners, plush insulation, and lightweight and adjustable shells—you […]
Read more »Friendlier Firebird
Reading Time: < 1 minutes If the World Cup-calibre Firebird WC boots are the level of performance you want but you don’t have the masochism to shove your feet into them—grinding is mandatory—Tecnica now […]
Read more »Future of Rentals
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lugging skis to, through and from the airport, paying baggage fees and then doing it all again in reverse. There’s nothing vacation-like about BYO on a ski holiday. In […]
Read more »Death to Plastics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Plastic is everywhere. Literally. The average Canadian throws away about 85 kg of the stuff a year. And it takes at least 500 years for it to break down […]
Read more »Nerd Alert: Tech Will Make You Better
Reading Time: 2 minutes These three products tap technology in the quest for safer, more efficient and technically superior skiing. Snowcookie: Put one of the Oreo-sized sensors on each ski and another in […]
Read more »From Space to the Slopes
Reading Time: 2 minutes NASA used aerogel to keep astronauts alive in temperatures that make a cold day on the Prairies seem warm (a sunny day on the moon tops out around -127° […]
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