Bookmark a restaurant or two, shave, shower, and head to the airport: time to pick up a buddy at Sea-Tac, chow down, sleep well, and head towards British Columbia in the morning.
Indeed, the climate models were right–a dry winter in Colorado, so we’re heading to Whitecap Alpine (WhitecapAlpine.ca) in the hope the Canadian spigot stays [...]
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Seattle…and the Canadian spigot
Behind the Scenes at Breck’s Snow Sculpture Championships
You can do more with snow in Breckenridge than just ride it.
Backcountry Booty Giveaway!
Elevation Outdoors wants to help you find your secret stash with two awesome prize packs!
In the Bag
So what to pack when you’re headed out into the backcountry? We go over safety gear in this story on avy safety, but here’s the rest of what we recommend.
Two low-profile packs that stand out are Deuter’s Freeride Pro 30 ($149; deuter.com) and Mammut’s Nirvana Snowpack ($170; mammut.ch). Both ride well, hold just the right [...]
Binding Bonanza
TELEMARK
22 Designs Hammerhead
The Hammerhead has become the hands-down favorite when it comes to tele bindings. Why? Reliability and snappy big-ski performance for one, but even better is the ability to adjust it at five different tension settings.
$225; twentytwodesigns.com
Black Diamond 01
The best tele touring binding we have tested, the O1 is easy to click into skinning [...]
On Your Rocker
BOARDS
K2 Darkside
Our go-to ski for tearing through big dumps, the Darkside looks like a waterski at 156/128/144—and it absolutely floats at high speed in deep stuff. Yet what really impressed us was how it could turn in area since the rocker is only in the tip with regular camber underfoot and in the tail. [...]
Suffering and Salvation
What do you get when you head out on the Colorado Interconnect? In this case, three resorts, thousands of turns and only one blister.
The wind doesn’t like us. It pelts us with icy pellets of snow. It tries to push us over. It tears at our skis, balanced on our shoulders as we scrape across [...]
Your Post-Season Bucket List
Then suddenly it’s over. Football season is done (the Broncos are long done), and there’s almost nothing good to watch on TV anymore. The remote control home-arrest bracelet immediately becomes irrelevant, and your weekends beckon with all the possibilities of distant peaks, deep blue mornings and fresh white snow.
After months of perfecting the four-channel stare [...]
Grange Land
If you’re looking for real roots music in authentic surroundings, take a trip back in time.
The “thump-thump” of feet tapping on plank floorboards while keeping time to a musical tune hasn’t changed much over the years—whether it’s cowboy boots or Keens. The twain do meet in Colorado’s local grange halls. Considered the communication hub of [...]
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