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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...
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Find Your Best Backcountry Skiing Kit: Freeride Ski

When you head into the backcountry, you crave the off-piste solitude, the big mountain landscap...
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Hidden Features of the Athlete-Designed Hemispheres Collection

Inspired, tested, and trusted by the Outdoor Research athlete team, the Hemispheres Jacket and B...
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How To Dress For Spring Ski Touring

There’s no skiing quite like spring skiing. Even aside from the potential for corn snow, touring ...
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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...
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Ice Climbing Etiquette

It’s become commonplace to find multiple teams on an ice climb. And in 20 years of climbing Ice I...
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Skiing The Haute Route

The Haute Route—or the High Route or Mountaineers' Route—is the route, with several variations, b...
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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 ...
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Choosing The Right Outdoor Jacket

Some of the most confusing terms in outdoor gear are the names “hard shell” and “soft shell.” Wh...
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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...
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The Ortler: Skiing Corn By Day And Feasting In Italian Huts By Night

Conditions are arid. But it’s last call for turns this April, so we finish packing our gear in th...
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One Woman's Guide To Ski Town Tinder

Online dating in small mountain towns is a special phenomenon, fraught with challenges that might...