2020 Gear Test Week Instagram Recap

by The Editors March 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

The 2020 Gear Test Week may be over, but memories of a week fueled by powder, sun and fun are still fresh in the minds of testers and editors. The work at Backcountry Magazine headquarters located in Jeffersonville, Vermont, however, is just beginning and over the next few months our team will work to organize and disseminate reviews from over 40 splitboard and ski testers.

To keep us moving ahead as we compile the 2020 Gear Guide, out this fall, we look back on the good times captured on camera and seen on the Instagram feeds of our testers.

Here are a few of our favorite moments.

Editor Lucy Higgins and beau Jacob O’Connor tie the knot for a second—and slightly more unofficial—time at Eden, Utah’s Shooting Star Saloon.

Tester John Lauer checks out the lofty qualities of a Never Summer board.

Tester Kris Thomas takes a trip to the white room during the 2020 Gear Test Week.

Tester Alec Sandberg captures the bluebird stoke in the Powder Mountain, Utah sidecountry.

Editor Lucy Higgins puts in the leg work needed for the 2020 Gear guide.

Rookie tester Alix Klein reminisces on powder and new friends made during last week’s festivities.

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