"Contour"

Contour ski tour climbing skins review, 2020 version with Hybrid glue are recommended.

Contour ski touring climbing skins use a special Hybrid glue that’s incredible, and come in mohair as well as nylon, this is a factory visit.

Review and opinion about Contour climbing skins for ski touring, ISPO 2017 and factory visit.

Cleaning the Contour Hybrid ski touring climbing skins is amazing, it renews to what appears to be new condition.

Review and industry visit with Koch Alpin, regarding Contour Hybrid and trad ski touring climbing skins mohair and nylon.

Review of Contour Hybrid climbing skins for ski touring and backcountry snow sports, you can wash these in the dishwasher.

Report, visit to Contour ski touring climbing skins in Austria, checking out tip and tail attachments as well as cleaning and renewal of skin glue.

Contour climbing skins, Shark tailhook is easy to install, no rivets, could change your ski touring life.

Hagan and Contour offer ski touring binding options for children, shorter kids skis as well for backcountry.

Contour Hybrid Climbing Skins, factory visit and review show these are excellent kit for backcountry skiing and touring.

Review of POV helmet camera cam Contour HD for backcountry skiing.

I grew up with an Army vet Dad who liked to yell out a favorite maxim from his West Point days: “Proper prior planning prevents poor performance!” When I asked Joe Howdyshell, head coach at Summit Endurance Academy and former…

We often associate Italy’s Ski Trab with skinny-waisted and lightweight skis. With the introduction of the Neve, Ski Trab deviates a bit and presents a 93mm width 1400g ski.   After an ongoing love affair with Ski Trab’s brilliant little…

Climbing or skiing Denali is a goal for many. Another goal is finding the right pack to haul a mega-load up the biggest hill in North America. No matter how real the struggle is, the Seek Outside Unaweep 6300 has a feature set to make the load carrying more comfortable and efficient.

In a somewhat crowded marketplace for lighter and skinnier skis, the Fischer Transalp 86 Carbon stands out, not in a flashy way, as a can-do stable ski. Spring corn and firm steeps anybody?

Elan jumps into the ski touring market with their Ripstick Tour line: inspired by Glen Plake, we’re hoping the iconoclast himself adds a splash of fun to these promising skis. Here’s our first look at the Ripstick Tour 94 W.

Visualizing the backcountry as a Splitboarder takes a different perspective than a skier. Learning to splitboard and reading terrain has unique challenges — we’re here to minimize those challenges with helpful pointers on anticipating backcountry terrain and keeping the fun factor high.

Moonlight skis Cruiser 120 offers plenty of width underfoot, and throughout the ski, for that matter, to make the most of powder skiing. And if you are going the distance, the ~1600g won’t tax you too much on the skintrack.

Vancouver-based G3 offers up a line of skins in their Minimist series with three builds on offer. We’ve got a review of the Universal (all-nylon), Glide (a 70/30 mohair/nylon mix), and Speed (100% mohair).

The skintrack can make you or break you. We prefer the former rather than the latter. ACMG/IFMGA guide Alex Geary shows us a shining path toward skintrack setting bliss in his digital handbook, The Art Of Up-Tracking For Skiers And Splitboarders.