The sound of 4-stroke engines idling as trucks creep over snow and gravel amid men and women in dark Klim gear walking off stiffness gives the parking lot of Togwotee Mountain Lodge the feeling of an army camp pre-battle. Mike and I stop to caffeinate and hydrate; a sign out front tells me snowmobiles are […]
Sushi is a delicious dead fish. And delicious dead fish float deliciously. So it makes sense that the Rossignol Sushi Splitboard, their newest pow split is a flotation master, starving for deep, fluffy white stuff to roar through. This may not be the most versatile split in your quiver — but when the conditions are […]
RIRIE – ID, The Kelly Canyon Resort is a hidden gem, is a vestige of halcyon days when skiing and snowboarding was affordable and everybody was more concerned with having fun than looking cool. The Kelly Canyon Resort is nothing like larger ski resorts I mean, tickets cost $40 for the day, $32 for the […]
There is nothing more frustrating than skins that don’t bite. The track gets slippery and steep and the switchbacks take twice as much effort. Especially true in spring when fighting your way up the hard-packed superhighway of Garnet Canyon, where I took these last year on a trip up to the Chouinard Couloir in the […]
The newsest Burley creation is the Burley D’Lite Bike Trailer, the best bike trailer/jogger/baby transporter ever put together. Anytime you’re moving on paved roads at a decent clip there’s the danger of your child falling at high speed and hitting his or her head; when you’re on dirt trails, you have to worry about what’s […]
The Arbor Coda Camber took everything I fed it and was hungry for in a snowboard and more. I need a stiff board. I’m on the heavier, meatheadier end of the snowboarder body type spectrum and I like to ride aggressively. Deep powder slashes like I was bashing some dream head-high lip. And it’s nice […]