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A nod to the Ramer Echo Avalanche Transceiver, a 1980s ski touring gem of a transceiver that’s lightweight with long battery life.

Review and museum display of Ramer Comfort ski touring backcountry binding, interesting ski equipment from 1980s used an alpine heel unit.

Review and museum display of Ramer MT 2000 ski touring binding, 1993, last binding from Paul Ramer had odd toe latch system.

Ramer Model R Aluminum historic ski touring binding made debut retail release in 1974, check out our museum display of this backcountry classic.

Ramer Universal Military NATO ski touring binding from 1980s was a poor design, surprising it was manufactured, history of backcountry gear.

Innovative ski touring binding of 1980s, Paul Ramer Universal model had the first heel lift and was precursor to the tech bindings of today.

Fence gate made from skis has history of ski touring for Dawson family and industry of backcountry skiing and mountaineering.

Ramer Universal Military ski touring backcountry binding was an interesting yet dysfunctional design that’s interesting from a history context.

Perhaps the most highly engineered of the Ramer backcountry skiing binding offerings, model MT-2000 was released in 1993.

Ramer Model R backcountry skiing binding was a pioneer but had some problems, circa 1976.

Ramer Comfort binding was made by Paul Ramer in partnership with VauDe to address the needs of the European market in the mid 1980s.

Blah, blah, blah. I can hear my dad telling me how it was back in the day. I’m not talking some story along the lines of walking uphill both ways to school, but it might as well be. Thank you,…

How to make backcountry skiing less white? Aidan Goldie examines the implicit biases, racism, and barriers that prevent BIPOC from backcountry inclusivity.

Imagine you are stuck at a hut. You usually sport both an avalanche beacon transceiver and an airbag backpack. But this time you only get one or the other. Which would you choose?

Winter of 1990-1991. Fritz Barthel had been developing his revolutionary “tech” ski touring binding for about six years. Around 1986, he’d begun manufacturing and retailing the binding himself — no ski company would license his patent (a source of much…

History of Dynafit and Low Tech ski boot toe fittings, retail began around 1985 and this ski touring gear has undergone constant evolution.

Drilling holes in skis for ski touring bindings, number of times you can do it depends on many factors.