Outdoor Retailer trade show covered for backcountry skiing gear, 2009. Ski boots, gps, crampons, sleeping pads, more.
Monthly Archives
July 2009
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Outdoor Retailer trade show, summer, still has tons of backcountry skiing related gear.
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Nothing like doing some carbon sequestering with your ski touring boots. Yeah, last winter most of you probably heard about La Sportiva’s possibly ground breaking carbon AT boot.
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Check out this backcountry skiing in New Zealand! As many of you know, I’m working as a ski patroller at Mt. Cheeseman, a “club ski field” in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is a fun place to work, definitely a lot different than ski areas in the U.S. It is funky in various ways, one of which is that the lodge only had 16kbs dialup for the start of the season. Needless to say, I haven’t been able to do any trip reports until I got better internet access. Luckily, one of the club members figured out how to beam broadband up here from his house, so let the TRs begin!
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Check out this conceptual design. Nothing really new, but fun to see the industrial designers have their thinking caps on. I still contend that a passive system is the way of the future.
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Feathered Friends Volant down jackets reviewed, for backcountry skiing or expedition use
