Gearing Up On A Budget For Winter Sports
Spokane-area small businesses — Rambleraven Gear Trader, Sports Creel, and Play It Again Sports — sell used gear for alpine winter sports.
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Maloja KlausM Jacket
I got to test a similar Maloja Gore-Tex jacket made for mountain biking this summer, but by the time I was set to write the review, it was already sold out. The KlausM featured here is a beefier, shoulder-season and winter version of the one that kept me dry on a multi-day trip deep into
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Gear Room: Cody Townsend’s Le Send Ski Touring Sock
Australian gear company Le Bent turned to pro skier Cody Townsend to help design the first sock specifically for ski touring. Years of suffering through long ski tours with cold, wet feet and painful blisters gave Townsend the motivation to address all the issues faced by backcountry riders from climbing to descending. The sock includes
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Gear Room: Sweet Protection Interstellar Goggles
For me, a sign of a well-designed piece of gear is how little cursing is involved with first getting a gear item dialed and functioning. When I frantically ripped open the box containing my new Sweet Protection goggles an hour before the lifts started running on a powder day this winter, I expected to do
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Gear Room: Sweet Protection Helmet
I started wearing a helmet skiing over a decade ago, and good thing too. The very next season, casually picking my way down a shredded and deserted powder field, a young snowboarder crashed into me from behind. His board struck my helmet and the impact left my head aching for hours. It was long past
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Slopestyles: The Art of Skis
Skis assist people who want to move efficiently, and often rapidly, in alpine terrain. And just as humans have injected charisma and flare into their technique, they have infused personality and self-expression into their equipment. Here are three companies that work with local artists who elevate the alpine experience with inspiring visual designs. Personalized Art
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6 Winter Gear Gift Ideas
Mountain Equipment Dispersion Jacket The genius of the Dispersion Jacket isn’t a laundry list of superfluous features, but in the simple construction that combines hard and soft shell fabric in all the right places to make a superb, light-weight ski touring jacket that won’t let you down when the weather turns.With the mix of GORE-TEX
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Local Shop Ski Gear Picks
Season pass? Check. New GORE-TEX jacket? Check. Winter tires for the Subie? Check. This year’s hottest ski gear? If you’re not feeling too confident about that last one, check out these gear picks from some of our region’s leading shops. ARC’TERYX Procline Ski Mountaineering Boot: $750 ($1,000 Carbon) New for the 2016 winter season, Arc’teryx
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Ski Swap Buyer’s Guide: Finding the Right Gear and Having a Blast at Your Local Ski Swap
Ski season might appear to be a long way away, but the region’s ski swaps are nearly upon us. Whether you are an avid swap-goer or a first-timer, the experience can be overwhelming. Imagine a seemingly endless space packed with skis, boots, clothing and accessories, and then fill it with 1,000 people, some of whom