Snow Sports
Archive
Dissecting the scary trick halfpipe skiers will need to nail for a shot at gold
Skiing in the middle of the season can mean long waits at the lifts and jam-packed hotels. Here’s how to avoid both.
Who says cat and heli-skiing are for the one percent? Here’s how to score prime powder at a cut rate.
What we think will happen on, and off, the course at Sochi
America’s secret to victory in the bobsled? Outsourcing.
Let's just say the dry spell means much more than an epically awful ski season.
Jack London said that achieving greatness sometimes means burning white hot, even if there's a price to be paid once the flame goes out. Josh Dean went to Alaska to hang with Lance Mackey, the toughest competitor in Iditarod history. He came away with a new understanding of resilience, bravery, and the iron bond between a musher and his dogs.
A nonprofit that grades U.S. ski areas on their environmental friendliness wants you (and them) to take its report seriously. But navigating the details feels like skiing through crud.
Want to learn how ski but don't want to spend all your wages on expensive ski gear and rentals? Here are some tips for saving on gear from a life-long budget-savvy skier.
Whether you’re running or skiing, learn the optimal combination of cold-weather gear with our guide to winter layering
Whether you’re carving corduroy or slaying the steeps, a little guidance from the pros can help you do it better.
At the Olympic Training Center, these ingenious Russian-themed recipes have been turned into gold-medal performance grub.
In a typical January, the fabled Japanese resort Niseko gets more snow—nearly 15 feet—than any other ski area in the world. But is there such a thing as too much?
Blake talks about the purchase of her family's business and what she'll do next.
Transceivers work well, but are costly. Apps may offer a cheaper alternative.
Bode Miller (skier) and Morgan Beck (volleyballer) have had a few rough moments as a couple, including a bitter child-custody battle with an ex-girlfriend and the death of his younger brother, Chelone. But as Bode plunges into the most ambitious ski season of his career, he’s already met his match—a woman who, like him, seems to thrive on a little craziness.
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.
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.
Your favorite slopes—bigger, better, and ready for winter
The 411 for planning your ski trip around the weather
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.
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.
Think you can squeeze in another season with that old lid? Read this first.
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.
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
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