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Find Your Best Backcountry Skiing Kit: Ski Touring
When you head into the backcountry, you crave the off-piste solitude, the big mountain landscap...
Find Your Best Backcountry Skiing Kit: Freeride Ski
When you head into the backcountry, you crave the off-piste solitude, the big mountain landscap...
Hidden Features of the Athlete-Designed Hemispheres Collection
Inspired, tested, and trusted by the Outdoor Research athlete team, the Hemispheres Jacket and B...
How To Dress For Spring Ski Touring
There’s no skiing quite like spring skiing. Even aside from the potential for corn snow, touring ...
Designed by Adventure: The Tantrum II Hooded Jacket
Wind and precipitation have a way of stopping athletes in their tracks on the trail. Whether so...
Ice Climbing Etiquette
It’s become commonplace to find multiple teams on an ice climb. And in 20 years of climbing Ice I...
Skiing The Haute Route
The Haute Route—or the High Route or Mountaineers' Route—is the route, with several variations, b...
How To Ski Powder Like A Pro
Slalom “Z” turns are a powder skiing technique many skiers rely on. A fun, safe comfort zone for ...
Choosing The Right Outdoor Jacket
Some of the most confusing terms in outdoor gear are the names “hard shell” and “soft shell.” Wh...
Hazards Of Dating A—Way—Better Skier
First, let’s get things straight: I’m no slouch of skier. My ski education took place at Missoula...