Video: The Works

by The Editors September 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

This year, Backountry’s annual Gear Test Week brought in more than 200 skis, bindings and boots and some 50 testers, all eager to test the latest technology in backcountry gear. With numbers like these, it takes a village to ensure that each and every piece of gear gets the testing it deserves. Amid this mayhem, 2015’s Editors’ Choice skis, bindings and boots were chosen, all because of the immense tester feedback they received.

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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…]

: 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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