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What’s a better shortcut for last-minute ski-season training, strength or cardio?

With the economy on the uptick and early snowfall stoking demand, Dan Sherman, spokesman for ski-centric travel agent Ski.com, says you can’t count on resorts dropping prices mid-season. You should book early and online. Here are a few deals to get you started.

Six cities vie for the next, next Winter Games

Which resorts have the best ski tutorials?

Fire the babysitter. This time you're bringing the whole family.

How a fearless filmmaker is shifting the conversation around snowboarding and big air

It took 13 years to broker a land exchange in Summit County, Colorado. But the results appear to be worth the wait.

For the skier who likes to shop locally

Corporations aren't all bad when it comes to skiing

Your favorite slopes—bigger, better, and ready for winter

The 411 for planning your ski trip around the weather

The best places for uphill and in-bounds skiing

Where to go off the beaten path this winter

The Neoteric’s fancy fabric— Polartec’s NeoShell—might be the ideal material for a resort ski jacket. It’s breathable, quiet, stretchy, and totally waterproof. And Eddie Bauer employs it perfectly.

In the market for ski goggles? Here's what to look for this season.

The Black Everest, one of 13 new models from Louis Garneau using a Boa cable closure, finally nails it. The steel lacing, tightened by twisting a glove-friendly, ratcheting knob, snugs a soft plastic frame around your boot for a fit that feels custom.

Burton has been building snowboards in Vermont for more than 30 years. Along the way, it learned a thing or two about what makes a board well balanced.

Rossi is the industry leader when it comes to balancing rocker (upturned tip and tail), camber (for edge hold and glide), and taper (the pin shape in the front and back, which delivers a loose feel in and out of turns). This year it packed all that institutional knowledge into the Super 7.

The first 16-DIN tech binding, the new Beast features a “return to center” toe piece. As you ski, the binding deflects to absorb shock. It’s one of the reasons, safety-wise, alpine-style bindings outperform tech bindings.

Riders looking for a big-­mountain twin tip will love the Venture Skylar

The Helldorado is nimble in strangled chutes but stable and absorbant when you’ve got room to open it up.

With a tight 14.3-meter turn radius, a powerful system-style binding, and Head’s World Cup race construction, this Austrian setup should have tossed us Yanks around by our Cinnabons.

DPS took its deeply rockered Lotus 120—which sports a long pintail, tapered tip, and just a smidge of sidecut underfoot—and added a convex base to the shovel of the ski. That’s right, the base is actually spoon shaped in the front third.

The Annex 108 doesn’t really have a weak spot. The wood core and metal construction make chatter a nonissue.

Rossignol’s honeycombed tip and tail shed mass where it’s vital—away from your body. As a result, it’s effortless to throw the Soul 7 sideways in the trees or whenever you need to scrub speed.

Giro’s Combyn helmet is made from the same material used to protect football players’ noggins.

For its redesigned Super 7, Rossignol found the perfect balance of rocker (upturned tip and tail), camber (underfoot for edge hold), and taper (for easy turn entry and exit).

I'm wondering could you recommend some sunglasses that could block 100% UV and 82-91% visible light. I want to use it for high altitude climbing and snow activities.

The Black Diamond pack that promises to set a new standard for avalanche survival gear

A closer look at how air bags increase your chances of surviving a deadly slide

The remarkably well-priced Theory features damping wood-core construction, powerful vertical side walls, and energetic carbon fiber stringers.

The snow is already falling across the country. You don't want to hit the slopes this year unprepared.

Get educated before you go out this Winter season

Think you can squeeze in another season with that old lid? Read this first.

Your vehicle is the ultimate home base this season

With an entourage of powder freaks and beautiful athletic women, Nick Waggoner is doing his twenties justice—taking big creative risks and traveling the world directing artsy ski porn that sponsors love.

8 rising stars under 15

Stay comfortable and illuminated with LuminAid's TPU pillow lantern

With the spring skiing season winding down, I'm starting to go into withdrawal. I'd like to get a few more turns in, but I don't want to go down to South America. What are my options?

Six skiers and snowboarders were buried alive last Saturday in an avalanche many called predictable. One survived. As details of the accident trickled out—their high level of experience and position in the ski industry—it became impossible not to ask: How did they end up in Colorado's deadliest slide in 50 years?

As ski season wraps up, we ask 10 big guns to predict the future of the sport

The extreme polar explorer on rock lifting, noodles, and scheduling conflicts

Patagonia's Black Hole Snow Roller is a sleek, simple, durable ski bag

Taking your children out of bounds means facing a whole different class of hazards than you see at the resort.

A Depression-era insulating material is becoming the hottest thing in outerwear

Katie Heaney fell off a horse. Years later, she got back on. You can decide whether or not this works as a metaphor for something else.

Huston just left the country for his expedition to Ellesmere Island

It's natural to feel a little anxious before a trip into the backcountry with your kids, but follow these common sense guidelines and know everything will turn out fine

Keeping the family happy doesn't have to mean sacrificing steep terrain and old-school cool

Helly’s Flow System turbocharged mechanical venting is anatomically body mapped not only for warming but also for cooling

Tired of waiting for the industry to start offering appropriately-sized splitboards and other backcountry items, Ali Carr Troxell is turning to Wagner Custom for the perfect made-to-order gear

Katie Arnold puts the Burley D'Lite and Chariot Chinook 2 to the test on a trip to the Spruce Hole Yurt in southern Colorado's San Juan Mountains

The champion ski jumper took some time out of a busy training and travel schedule to answer a few of our questions

Where it's more about skiing than the scene

Axie Navas takes a look at a new sport that's figuring out its place—on the snow and in the air

My college roommates and I are planning a last-minute spring break ski trip, but we don’t know where to go yet. Which resort has the après ski scene for the college or post-college crowd? It has to be somewhere in North America, preferably out West.

Brian Blickenstaff went to a not-quite-top-tier bobsled competition, and he found a bunch of people with a lot more in common than matching helmets

Elizabeth Eilers Sullivan catches up with 16-year-old Noah Pereira, the recent winner of a 150-mile dogsled race in Alaska that's seen as the precursor to the famous Iditarod

From renting a car to cheap places to stay and where to go, 15 tips for skiing the Alps

Ready to hit the hills? If your gear needs an update—this winter or next—consider these pieces from POC.

Ali Carr Troxell tests Helly Hansen’s new, innovative way to keep you warm out on the slopes

Seven years after the release of the original, Gregory has re-launched the Targhee system with upgrades that include a new suspension built specifically for this pack

The Colorado Information Center's avalanche forecaster talks about the most common mistakes backcountry skiers make, how to mitigate risk, and how to survive an avalanche

This new line is made specifically so you don't have to fumble around in your pack while out on a run

What’s it like to be a woman in the male-dominated outdoor industry? Donna Carpenter, Burton’s president and co-founder, is doing something to prove that diversity in the workplace equals success.

You see strange things when you head up R&D at Patagonia. Like goose down floating in illuminated tubes. You go to strange places. Like secret labs inside white-washed corporations in Austin, Texas.

What kind of damage do bumps do to your body? What can I do to strengthen beforehand and counteract the aftereffects?

Or will I be totally out of shape this spring?

In Minnesota, where hockey rules, ice is a winter crop

I need a pair of good-quality ski goggles to protect my eyes, but I don’t know where to start. Help me out!

Katie Heaney went snowkiting. She didn't fly.

The Austrian mountain guide that has been involved in some of extreme sports' most notable conquests talks about the 2011 debacle on Cerro Torre, working with Shane McConkey and Felix Baumgartner, and how the big-mountain comp scene is a bit like kindergarten

Seen frequently on the freestyle circuit in the '70s, The Ski is getting an update, with 3Dimension Sidecut technology and a full-length wood core

Ali Carr Troxell visits the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, a noted Maya archeological site. Read about her trip here and then check out her list of 10 must-have pieces of gear for a perfect Belizean expedition.

Don't get me wrong, I love skiing. I hit the slopes several times every winter. But I'm looking for something new and exciting that I can do in the outdoors during the winter months. Any ideas?

I need to get away.

One of the world's most accomplished female skiers talks about her upcoming film, the unique challenges women face on the slopes, and her dream day in the mountains

Every Thursday, Katie Arnold, in an effort to pack in some more alone time—no sisters and no fathers allowed—picks up her daughter from preschool early and they hit the slopes

Never worry about slicing that down jacket open again