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How Ski Resorts Are Fighting Climate Change
As New England confronts sidewalk avalanches and digs itself out from underneath a blizzard, West Coast skiers are dealing with the opposite problem. Squaw Valley, which averaged 450 inches of snowfall...
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What’s the Better Deal for Skiers: Fly, Ship, or Rent?
Fly, ship, or rent? It's the vacationing skier's eternal dilemma. But the bottom line is always the same: You want the best and you want to be comfortable. There's not always one right answer, however....
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Sending Backflips During a Lunch Break
Portillo is an amazing place, and the region is home to one of my favorite ski cultures. It's one of the only spots in the world where the top freeskiers and top racers gather to shred in a wide...
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The Skiers Cup Is the Coolest Event in Skiing
The Skiers Cup, the equivalent of golf's Ryder Cup, pits Team Europe against Team America in a match-play format. Athletes compete in two events, backcountry slopestyle and big mountain, and begin high...
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No More Barbie Gear
The adventure sports world can be an enlightened place when it comes to gender. Athletes like alpinist Melissa Arnot and ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin are as celebrated as Dave Hahn and Bode Miller. But...
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Alone On Mont Chilly
Photo Gallery: Alone On Mont Chilly Lift tickets for $20, hot dogs for $1.50, and no snow-making machines. Quebec’s Mont Chilly is a true old-school ski mountain. Built and operated by 83-year-old...
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Taos Ski Valley Extends Season
It’s been a weak-sauce winter across the West, with California resorts closing early and the Rockies experiencing a precocious spring thaw. The only place that’s escaped the drought? New Mexico’s Taos...
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AR Devices GogglePal
Have you seen all there is to see at your local ski resort? Then add another layer with the AR Devices GogglePal, a small add-on that shows an augmented reality inside your normal ski goggles.The...
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Plans to Revive Winter Park Train Gain Steam
There’s talk of reviving the Winter Park Ski Train, which would allow skiers to go from downtown Denver to carving turns in less than two hours—without the headache of I-70 congestion.The ski train...
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Avalanche Safety
A category of gear that came into being in the late 1960s as more and more skiers ventured beyond resort boundaries. Before that, miners and other workers who spent significant time in avalanche...
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When Should I Buy My Ski Pass for This Winter?
There’s still plenty of summer left, with grilling and mountain biking in full swing. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be getting ready for winter. If you’re planning to buy one of the season’s...
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Why Did One of Snowboarding's Most-Loved Brands Suddenly Fail?
On Thursday morning, boutique-board maker Venture Snowboards sent an email to media and released a statement on its website announcing it would not deliver any product to market in the 2015/16...
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The Best Snowboards of 2016
Our 45-member test team spent a week riding 94 new snowboards in Crested Butte, Colorado, last March, shredding from dawn till dusk until our legs could take no more. The first few days on hardpack and...
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How To Bake Like a Pro Snowboarder
Snowboarder Kimmy Fasani and skier Chris Benchetler met at a Mammoth Lakes ice cream parlor as teens—Benchetler working behind the counter and Fasani stopping in regularly for scoops. The parlor closed...
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The Best Winter Trips of 2016
Maybe you can stop everything to chase a storm at a moment's notice. Maybe you scrape by on a meager allotment of vacation days. Either way, you likely want to squeeze in as many ski days as possible...
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8 Splurges for Those Who've Been Really, Really Good
We love stocking stuffers, but the big-ticket hero gifts are the ones we really look forward to. Presenting eight splurges to buy—or maybe just drool over. Photo: Salemtown Board Co. Salemtown Board...
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Avalanche Rescue Needs a Revolutionary
On January 7, 2008, Todd Weselake, a 23-year-old photographer living in Fernie, British Columbia, picked up two friends, Janina Kuzma and Ian Bezubiak, for a morning of backcountry skiing and...
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Summer Is the New Winter at Ski Resorts
With shrinking visitor numbers and low-snow seasons afflicting ski areas around the West, resort owners are realizing that attracting wintertime guests alone isn’t enough to survive.“Our winter...
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The Chapstick-Size Tool Changing Backcountry Search and Rescue
At the 2015 Interbike trade show, POC Sports debuted its Tectal Race, the first-ever mountain bike helmet with a built-in Recco rescue reflector. Until this fall, the system had only been used in snow...
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The Greatest Aerialists in Snow Sports Are Coming to Fenway Park
This February, Fenway Park’s most distinctive structure won’t be the Green Monster, the 37-foot-high left-field wall inside the 103-year-old home of the Boston Red Sox. It will be the 140-foot-high...
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