The 23/24 Transalp Pro revamp adds more muscle, durability, and skiability for all terrain, especially steeps. My touring partner and I botched the timing on a morning mission in Colorado’s Gore Range towards the end of last season. After booting…

For backcountry skiers and splitboarders looking for a higher-volume, low-weight electronic airbag, Ortovox’s AVABAG Litric Tour 40 is one of only a few options. The pack utilizes the LiTRIC system, a lightweight electronic airbag system co-developed by Ortovox and Arc’teryx…

I truly needed goggles in the backcountry once last season. The wind was absolutely whipping, the light was perfectly flat, and I was downright nervous about the Gore Range couloir we were trying to find along a ridge of indistinguishable…

A splitboarder tired of breaking his poles gives his first impressions of Wolverine Snow Products’  three-piece Split Sticks. Woe is the splitboarder. We’re less efficient backcountry travelers than our two-planking brethren, and, it seems to me, more prone to equipment…

When I first picked up the new Arc’teryx Micon Litric 42 airbag pack at a trade show over the summer, I thought to myself, that’s kind of heavy for a ski touring backpack. Then I saw the “LiTRIC” label and…

A good pair of touring pants are the foundation of a backcountry ski kit. They’re the only component of a touring wardrobe where adding or shedding a layer is impractical, so you need to land at the trailhead confident that…