Janne Tjärnström takes the stairs.
Åre, Sweden | Photo: Mattias Fredriksson
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After a year away, we returned to Utah’s Powder Mountain, where we’ve been testing for 15 years, bringing along 45 testers with diverse backgrounds. Even more diverse is the terrain at Pow Mow: skintrack-accessed sidecountry bowls, perfect aspen glades off the Sunrise poma, steep chutes under the Paradise lift. It’s here that we test a huge amount of gear and testers give us an even larger pile of feedback. With this well-oiled system, we find [Read More…]
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GEAR CRAZY
Given the epic demand for touring gear and the unprecedented way Backcountry Magazine had to test it last year, we pulled together some of our veteran testers to talk about their experience, because it’s from their insight that our editors made selections for this year’s Gear Guide. We get into those details a bit. We talk about a range of topics—from quivers of one to why tele gear hasn’t changed in a decade and the best skins on the market today. And, of course, we share some of our favorites. Joining host Adam Howard are Marla and Jeremy “Shaggy” Bailey, from Steamboat Springs, Colorado; from Bozeman, Montana, our Technical Editor Lance Riek; and, from Vermont, Darrin McLeod and our very own Tyler Cohen.
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We’ve compiled a database of U.S. resorts with a little about each individual policy—where and when skinning is allowed, whether or not it’s free during operating hours and the link directly to the resort’s guidelines.
2023 Editors’ Choice: Sport Touring Skis, Boots and Bindings
The biggest category, sport touring has grown to incorporate ski mountaineering, racing-inspired boots that … [Read More...]
2023 Editors’ Choice: Splitboards, Boots and Bindings
At our first snowboard test in 2005, the array of splits we saw this year would have been unimaginable. … [Read More...]
Janne looks lonesome; perhaps I should join him.