backcountry skiing

Press release out today, our beloved Independence Pass is closed for the season. The goods are up there. Terrific backcountry skiing when it snows, incredible rock climbing and hiking if we get more Indian summer. But is Indy really closed?…

The amount of snow in Montezuma Basin, Colorado is of historic proportions. Pack is easily 48 inches overall, with areas of six or more feet in the lee of the classic fetches that build the “glacier” we ski on in the summer.

Spy photo taken in the Life-Link workshop after mounting Dynafit bindings used on Mount Everest by the DesLauriers and Chin. The skis are Volkl T-Rock. Well, if this isn’t the final word on Dynafit, I don’t know what is. I…

We have to spell the Powderhoar’s name a bit off from the official text, because I don’t want to risk this website being blocked for adult content. But that’s my only gripe about their new ski flick, PW06. They say…

Life Link has done a good job and we wonder how anyone in a few months can set up a customer service infrastructure to match the one that Life-Link has developed over eight years of distributing Dynafit

Are backcountry skiers really rednecks in drag? Our gals might not have hairdos that can be ruined by ceiling fans and us boys know a Volvo is not an anatomical reference (right?), but recent changes in ski culture have me…