The Great Gear Review: The Drift Snow Helmet, Roca and Pipeline Goggles from Wildhorn Outfitters
With Wildhorn Outfitters, function meets form at a nice price, and the pros like them too!
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Illustrator James Niehues has produced exquisite, hand-painted trail maps for ski resorts as far afield as Portillo, Chile, and Vail, Colorado since the late 1980s. His crowdfunded coffee table book just became Kickstarter’s most successful art-illustration project ever.
The TomTom Adventurer: A Watch That Saved My Life
Good gear can keep you alive in the mountains. I always carry a probe, a shovel, and an avalanche transceiver, but what brought me down to safety was a watch I had never heard of. Adventurer is TomTom's latest addition to the world of navigation.
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Snowboarding for dummies: a newbie's tale
Inspired by high-end snowboarding movies, a mountain enthusiast in Switzerland learns how to ride the white stuff.
Couloirs. The word carries a certain element of mystery. The natural feature itself evokes fear, divides beautifully serrated cliffs into powdered columns of gut-wrenching fun and is certainly the backyard of mountain lovers.