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国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the CW-X Insulator Stabilyx tights.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Surly Pugsley bike.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Saucony PowerGrid Cortana running shoe.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Patagonia Ultralight Down Hoody.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Casio ProTrek PRW-5000Y-1 watch.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Jones Snowboards Mountain Twin.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the L.L. Bean Polartec Power Dry Quarter-Zip Lightweight base layer.
Freestyle skiing legend Glen Plake picks his 5 favorite places to ski
国产吃瓜黑料 Buyer’s Guide editor Sam Moulton takes Intern Dave and Patagonia’s waterproof Primo Down jacket to the carwash.
For this winter’s Buyer’s Guide our testers teamed up with Backcountry magazine to put the skis through the ringer, for a week, in waist-deep powder.
Big-mountain skier Ingrid Backstrom picks her 5 favorite places to ski
Intern Dave dives deep for Olympus’s waterproof, shockproof, and freezeproof point and shoot, the TG-810. For more of the right travel gear, check out our travel essentials.
Avalanche air bags are gaining in popularity. And for good 颅reason鈥攖hey can increase survival rates by 98 percent.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Rossignol Krypto Magtek snowboard.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the CAMP Xenon Trek pole.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Black Diamond Ultra Distance Trekking Pole.
With temperatures below zero, more than 4,500 feet of climbing, and 9,400 competitors, Wisconsin鈥檚 American Birkebeiner is the largest and one of the toughest cross-country ski races in the United States. Crossing the finish line is nothing short of a lifetime achievement. Here's our plan to get you there, even if the closest you've come to snow is the frost in
Where are the best places in North America to make early tracks this fall?
REI, Recreational Equipment Inc., a Seattle-based gear co-op we think you’ve probably heard of, seems to have hired away Santa’s most creative elves just before the holidays. The company just announced its online聽Winter Gear Guide, which highlights the best winter gear, explains techy terms like rocker, and gives…
When winter and darkness settle on Norway, the locals go skiing. Watch them rip from summit to the sea in the Fjords of the Sognadal region.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the BCA Arsenal A-1 shovel with 35-centimeter saw.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Exped Explorer 120 trekking pole.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Oakley Holbrook sunglasses.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Contour+ POV camera.
This is what six seconds of Salomon’s week-long Jib Academy looks like at 1000 frames per second. We recommend watching the whole video.
Ski mountaineer Greg Hill logged two million vertical feet in the backcountry last year. What’s his next big challenge?…
聽 DPS' Stephan Drake tests the Spoon behind Alta, Utah. from DPS SKIS on Vimeo. 聽 聽 If you've cracked open your 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine Winter Buyer's Guide, available on newsstands everywhere and on your iPad as part of…
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Tubbs Wilderness Snowshoe
At just 16, Mikaela Shiffrin is already being called the fastest skier the U.S. has ever produced. Can she back up that hype on the world stage?
La Nina’s back. Salomon Freeski TV gives us a taste of the powder the West can expect again this season.
The American Alpine Institute (AAI) is a 35-year old mountain school best know for its advanced trainings, expeditions, and exceptional instruction, as well as its committment to protecting public lands. Of course, they also know a thing or two about gear, and this summer at the…
There鈥檚 no reason to be sheepish about switching those synthetic baselayers for a more natural alternative.
Timeline has released the trailer to the new documentary about snowboarder Xavier De Le Rue, “This is My Winter.” It will make the rounds at film festivals this fall and winter, starting with Banff.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Cassin X-All -Mountain ice ax
Norway's forbidding Hardangervidda Plateau nearly killed Roald Amundsen when he attempted a ski traverse in the winter of 1896. But the failure set him on a path of training, study, and exploration that led to his historic conquest of the South Pole. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of that feat, Mark Jenkins and his brother Steve skied the route, an epic challenge that even now can prove deadly.
You can't always get what you want, but you can get a pair of limited edition Rolling Stones themed K2 Sideshow skis if you're fast.聽To mark their respective聽50th anniversary celebrations, K2 and The Rolling Stones have collaborated on the ultimate rock and roll聽tribute skis: The K2…
They control the lands you play on, the athletes you worship, the gear you buy, even the food you eat. Meet the 25* most influential people in the world outside. *Ranked in order of influence
A rare run of winter steelhead is rumored to spawn in California’s Klamath River. Fly fisherman Ryan Peterson aims to catch one.聽…
Do a pair of expertly crafted custom skis pay out on the slopes, or is that extra money you spent just vanity underfoot?
聽Winter comes to British Columbia. Is it too late for Kevin and Jeremy to ride the trail they spend the summer building?…
Barking tree frogs, exploding dragonflies, crackling Arctic fjords鈥攖hese are the top 10 wildest field recordings.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear in the 2012 Winter Buyer's Guide, including the Tecnica Cochise Ski Boot
The first generation of snowsports hot shots is looking for meaning, and they鈥檙e finding it in the struggle to solve climate change. ext_script = "//player.ooyala.com/player.js?width=640&height=480&embedCode=BkYjd1MjrE62266DUH3T48HwHKO3enHn&videoPcode=1jZG06vQqWlGOe2jr1WK6VaYFHtK"…
In July, the International Ski Federation decided to require longer, straighter skis for skier safety. Did they make the right decision?
What's the best technical shell for skiing? I'm looking for a jacket that isn't bulky and provides versatility in more than one season.
Five accessories to turn your iPhone into a supergadget, including the Snow Peak iPhone 4 Titanium cover.
Teton Gravity Reseach’s latest ski flick was shot in nine locations. It premiers in New York City on Friday.
Despite a stellar record of spending cuts, job creation, and balanced budgets鈥攁nd a world-class adventure r茅sum茅 that includes an Everest summit鈥攆ormer New Mexico governor Gary Johnson can't get anyone to take his campaign for president seriously. Is it him or us?
Tonight, Patagonia and eBay announced a new partnership, the Common Threads Initiative. Together, they asked owners of fleece and Gore-Tex everywhere to pledge to reduce consumption, reuse old gear, recycle, repair what's broken, and reimagine a world where people don't stress the earth with…
Until his paralysis, Josh Dueck was an aspiring pro skier. Now, he’s pushing the limits of sit-skiing, winning competitions and going big in the backcountry.
Camp 14 is one of the liveliest spots on Denali, where climbers acclimatize and socialize before pushing to the summit. Add a photographer and travel writer to the mix and you get a who鈥檚 who on the highest peak in North America.
Why Sandy Vietze, the U.S. skier who urinated in front of a girl on a JetBlue flight, should be reinstated immediately.
For two weeks, the world’s best backcountry skiers and snowboarders rode the slopes of the Southern Alps near Wanaka, New Zealand. Here are a few highlights shot by Chris Kirkham.
From micro point-and-shoots to DSLRs to a full-on 3-D helmet cam, our eight picks of the season, including the GoPro 3D Hero.
Superstar chef Jamie Oliver became a hero in England by convincing his countrymen to eat better. Now he's on the case in the U.S. with Food Revolution, an ABC series in which he exposes the evils of processed fare, sends Americans back into the kitchen, and learns firsthand just how much we hate to change our recipes.
The skyrocketing market value of yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to turf wars鈥攁nd possibly murder.
How a group of under-the-radar snowboarding filmmakers created one of the most innovative action-sports empires.
In March climber Renan Ozturk was injured skiing. He’s back on the rock. Watch his road to recovery.
Included in our Top 10 from Banff, Solitaire, Sweetgrass Productions‘ latest, is a soulful ski-flick shot in South America.
Satellite-linked emergency devices give backpackers, skiers, and boaters fingertip power to cry for help. Alas, people often cry wolf.
Most alpinists call it a great year if they summit one 8,000-meter peak. Last spring, a Swiss mountaineer tried to knock off three.
With reinforced edges, this twin tip is designed specifically for the park.
Advice on types of gloves to wear for cold weather filming.
The most versatile jacket, and our Gear of the Year winner.
Follow an expedition to ski North Africa's highest peak.
Buyer’s Guide managing editor Alicia Carr picks some of her favorite new gear from the SIA snow show.
Our Gear of the Year winner excels in any kind of snow conditions.