New Gear: Gordini Spring Gloves
Gordini Spring gloves are a great choice for temperature-varying spring and summer adventures, from alpine hikes to backcountry skiing.
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Ski Gear: Gordini Cache Gauntlet Mitt
Gear Room: Gordini’s Gauntlet Mitt with Primaloft insulation maximizes warmth on cold days, for skiing/riding or other cold-weather recreation.
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6 Tips for Budget-Friendly Skiing
Living in the Inland Northwest, we are fortunate that skiing and snowboarding are still affordable family activities. Our local resorts offer plenty of deals, and your family doesn’t need to look like you just stepped out of a Patagonia catalog to keep dry and have a day of fun sliding in the snow together. While
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12 Reasons to Love Spring Skiing
By March, the urgency of the ski season has passed. First chairs, perfect lines, shin-deep tree runs have been scored. But the season is not done by any means. The mountains are still calling, and there are many ways that spring takes skiing and snowboarding to a higher level of bliss. 1. Powder Dumps: Sometimes
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Lost Ski Hills of North Central Idaho
Amidst the clear-cuts of the Camas Prairie in north-central Idaho, where Lewis and Clark staved off starvation and loggers hauled away millions of acres of straight-backed white pine, cries of the demise of small ski hills go ignored. Bald Mountain Ski Area At the end of pavement and not on the way to anything, Pierce, Idaho, population
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Brad Northrup: Ski Bum Advice – The Mountain Translator
Like most folks out there, I am locked up in a cubicle Monday through Friday in order to pay the bills, put food on the table, and keep myself and my better half geared up during ski season. Thankfully, I happen to work with some super nice people, many of whom share my love of
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Gear Review: Leki Xplore XT S Gloves
Leki rightly describes these alpine ski gloves as a cold weather warrior. The combination of a waterproof and windproof membrane and high-bulk Primaloft lining make my hands feel cocooned in a soft, warm shell. Despite the extreme warmth, these gloves are incredibly pliable and maintain excellent finger and hand dexterity. They seem to breathe well
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Gear Review: Leki Peak Vario S Ski Poles
These light and strong aluminum and carbon adjustable ski poles excel both inbounds and in the backcountry, but the innovative twist of the ski pole/ski glove interface is what really sets this set-up apart. Add a pair of Leki Xplore XT S ski gloves with the Trigger Loop system that secures effortlessly to several Leki
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How Did I Forget That? Gear For Skiing & Snowboarding
I like to think that I am always ready to go skiing; or, at least I have proven adept over the years at convincing myself that I am. My ski bag is always packed, I know where my skis and poles are, and I can usually locate my base layers within two hours once the
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Spokane’s City Ride Ski & Snowboard Camp
City Ride is grassroots collaboration of two self-proclaimed kooky snowboard buddies, involved in two different Spokane nonprofits. Friends Shane Thompson and Nick Sackman started City Ride to bring inner-city, under-resourced, and at-risk youth to the mountains to experience snowboarding and skiing in their own backyard. The City Ride mission is simple: create life-changing experiences that
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