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Spring means more opportunities to bike-to-ski/ride. Here’s a primer from @cascadeconnections on securing your skis/splitboard to a bike frame.

Photo trip report of bike to ski mission on Mt. Sopris outside of Carbondale, CO, riding, climbing and skiing a total of 7600 feet over 36 miles.

Trip report of biking to ski 13,899 Grizzly Peak in Colorado with a light gravel bike, skinny skis and sub 1000 gram boots.

For years, Mount Sopris beckoned. What better way to heed the call than a bike to ski to summit?

Ski/bike combo: backcountry skiing on Mt. Hood, a volcano with the easiest accessible summer snow in the PNW, finishing with a downhill mountain bike ride on 4,000 feet of flowy singletrack descent.

Week in review for ski touring articles 11/14-11/18/2016 and mountain biking in Moab while we wait for the snow to fall.

Lincoln Creek and Grizzly Creek ski touring approach using ebikes for Lincoln Road, Colorado backcountry recreation.

Electric bicycles (e-bike) could be the key to access of ski touring terrain in the backcountry that’s blocked by gated and otherwise ok roads.

Ski touring related equipment at Outdoor Retailer trade show summer 2015, including Arcteryx and Aspect Solar for backcountry adventure.

Backcountry fat tire bike. Alubooyah, with clever ski carry system using tech binding toe piece.

The differing styles of all the different ski tourers (tourists? Tourons?) is always interesting to me, running the gamut of the kitchen sink crew who, if needed, could live out of their touring pack in decadent luxury if the need…

Big and floaty and so so … so fine in ideal powder. This can be said about many skis, but, in particular, it is true of the DPS Pagoda Tour RP 112. And it turns out, this ski just flat out makes less-than-ideal powder more fun too.

Julbo has introduced a photochromatic lens in the Reactiv 0-4 High Contrast that offers a single-lens option for changing light conditions. We tested the new lens in Julbo’s Aerospace, a goggle designed to mitigate fogging with a built-in vent system.

For a mental reset, often nothing compares to a solo ski tour. Embarking on a solo mission requires self-awareness, a set of rules, and a willingness to follow those rules that at once may be personal but are in place to ensure safe travel. Alex Lee has some thoughts.

Moment is located in Reno, Nevada, at the foothills of the Sierra on Bible Way. Which, when you consider the biblical devotion of some Moment evangelists, is an apt street for the ski maker. We’ll genuflect towards a specific ski-binding pairing in this review, the Wildcat Tour 108 and the Voyager X II binding.

Many communities are knee deep already in beacon checks, snow assessment, and the move to non-rock skis. As daylight savings time reared up this weekend, so too did the need for avalanche beacon maintenance. Time to get on it. Here’s some easy first steps.